stolen property
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- noun
- /ˈstoʊlən ˈprɑːpərti/
:
bienes robados
- In the United States, the widow was charged with receiving stolen property.
So I put myself out as a handler of stolen property.
- So I put myself out as a handler of stolen property.
Examples
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This is stolen property.
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The victim was not injured during the incident, and all stolen property has been recovered, police said.
Blog text (18) -
Did he ever sell stolen property?
Fiction book (2000) -
Everybody would know it was stolen property.
Fiction book (1993) -
So that amounts to stolen property, right?
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It's stolen property, and it's a weapon.
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No less than five years and no more than ten for receiving stolen property.
Blog text (16) -
The police then arrested and charged the defendant with five counts of possession of stolen property.
Academic text (1990) -
Similarly, stolen property and the proceeds of criminal transactions are contraband.
Academic text (2017) -
The police found a safe full of stolen property in the suspect's house.
Synonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'goods taken without the owner's permission' is directly and compositionally derived from 'stolen' (past participle of 'steal') modifying 'property' (owned goods). This past-participle + noun pattern is a straightforward grammatical and semantic construction, widely cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Stolen property comes from the simple image of someone taking another person's things and carrying them away. Those things become stolen, meaning taken without permission, and are still that person's property. So the phrase means 'goods taken without the owner's permission'.