tangible possession

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tangible possession - property or belongings that are tangible

belongings, property, holding - something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property";

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This troubled me the more for a long time, because I had soon told Steerforth, from whom I could no more keep such a secret, than I could keep a cake or any other tangible possession, about the two old women Mr.

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He sells his last tangible possession, a piano, to provide money for a fix as he prepares to flee the country and elude arrest.

Sprummertime and easy livin' on the coast

Consumers get a powerful kick from taking tangible possession of a movie experience -- in the from of a videocassette or disc -- that is difficult to re-create through the more ephemeral media of electronic delivery.