Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
- no man's land
- land that is unowned and uninhabited (and usually undesirable)
- put option
- an option to sell
- bankroll
- a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)
- accounts receivable
- a creditor's accounts of money owed to him; normally arise from the sale of products or services
- threepence
- former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies
- post doc
- a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research
- share
- any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate
- deflator
- a statistical factor designed to remove the effect of inflation; inflation adjusted variables are in constant dollars
- matching funds
- funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources
- nuisance tax
- a tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer
- breakage
- reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use
- payola
- a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record
- Bermuda plan
- a hotel plan that provides a full breakfast daily
- business deduction
- tax write-off for expenses of doing business
- palimony
- support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends
- subtreasury
- a subordinate treasury or place of deposit
- single tax
- a system of taxation in which a tax is levied on a single commodity (usually land)
- rack rent
- an extortionate rent
- grant
- (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
- valuable
- something of value
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