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# chattel

«chattel» in Mova's school dictionary: **an item of personal property, a thing a person owns that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (chattel, chattels; usually in the phrase goods and chattels)

### meaning for a pupil

A chattel is an item of personal property, a thing a person owns that can be moved (old use). Chattels means all the belongings of a person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chattel/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, the goods a person owns, such as gold, jewels and things carried away

### examples

- She brought her goods and chattels, her gold and her jewels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chattel/#x1)
- The farmer sold all his chattels and moved away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chattel/#x2)
- They packed their chattels onto the cart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chattel/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chattel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chattel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.