Meaning of personal effects in English
(Definition of personal effects from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
personal effects | Business English
Examples of personal effects
personal effects
You want to think about specific bequests of jewelry or personal effects.
From Dallas Morning News
Forensic anthropologists attempt to identify the deceased by studying personal effects and bodily remains.
From NBCNews.com
We didn't have the personal effects of the service members.
From New York Post
That same year an underwater recovery operation at the crash site turned up remains, personal effects and debris from the crash.
From ABC News
He would have gathered all the personal effects and prepared the body for transport.
From Business Insider
But his images also document the eerie environments, equipment and personal effects left behind, reminding us of the struggle and anguish that occurred inside.
From Wired
So far, search teams have found small pieces of debris, victims' remains and personal effects from the plane.
From CNN
Personal effects of refugees found on the beaches were not systematically collected or stored to support identification, and survivors of shipwrecks were not systematically interviewed about those who had died.
From Phys.Org
Whether built for an adult or a child, each unique altar bears the lives of lost loved ones and often include photographs, worn rosaries, or small personal effects.
From Huffington Post
She returned home over the weekend to find her furniture ruined and discovered that her renter's insurance did not cover flood damage to her personal effects.
From Dallas Morning News
But the fact that you have, say, $100,000 in uncovered losses to your pool, fences, patio and personal effects, for instance, generally does not help satisfy the deductible.
From CBS News
In the throes of an eviction, a struggling tenant may have few places to go and fewer options for removing and storing a lifetime's worth of personal effects.
From Washington Times
Once again the bulldozers turned up the clothing and personal effects of anonymous victims, just as other remnants had resurfaced decades earlier.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Importance of recovering victims and their personal effects.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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