chattels

Example Sentences

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Slave society also linked liberty to the power of command, for true freemen gave orders while chattels followed them.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Players in those days were essentially sporting chattels: disempowered, desperate to keep working, part of a culture that lingered on doggedly in English football.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2016

Excluded in the sale but available for separate purchase were the household furniture, machinery and "the chattels within the house."

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2015

Whatever tragedy befell them, Atlantic creoles did not arrive in the New World as deracinated chattels stripped of their past and without resources to meet the future.

From Slate • May 18, 2015

The workers departed, taking with them their goods and chattels, leaving only the empty huts behind.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya