VOLITION
POSSESSIVE RELATIONS*
Property in General
Acquisition. –N. gaining, obtainment, procuration, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, redemption, salvage, trover, find, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money-grubbing, lucre, loave and fishes, EMOLUMENT, wealth, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, clean-up, pickings, perquisite, net profit, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, tilth, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, theft, stealing.
Loss. –N. perdition, forfeiture, lapse, privation, bereavement, deprivation, dispossession, riddance.
*That is, relations which concern property.
Thesaurus of Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget, M.D., F.R.S. Enlarged by John Lewis Roget, M.A., New Edition Revised and Enlarged by Samuel Romily Roget, M.A. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, the edition is copyright 1941, 1947.