common property
noun
: something owned by more than one person or group
The pool at the condominiums is common property.
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Some tend to think of their material possessions as common property and don’t keep much track of who pays for what.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
However, levitation could just mean that the material is diamagnetic—a common property found in many materials including copper—says Clarke.
—Will Henshall, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
That ranking test was an attempt to get at a concept that Jean Piaget called seriation, or the ability to order objects based on a common property.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2021
Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
However, levitation could just mean that the material is diamagnetic—a common property found in many materials including copper—says Clarke.
—Will Henshall, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
That ranking test was an attempt to get at a concept that Jean Piaget called seriation, or the ability to order objects based on a common property.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2021
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“Common property.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20property. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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