Definitions

1. A personal item or notice in a newspaper.

2. A column in a newspaper or magazine featuring personal notices.

3. (Law) A movable; a chattel.

4. A short notice or paragraph in a newspaper referring to some person or persons.

5. In law, any movable thing, either living or dead; a movable.

6. Done in person; without the intervention of another.

7. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.

8. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general

9. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.

10. Of or relating to the body or physical being.

11. Of or relating to a particular person; private.

12. Done, made, or performed in person.

13. Done to or for or directed toward a particular person.

14. Law Of or relating to the person.

15. Concerning a particular person and his or her private business, interests, or activities; intimate.

16. Relating to or having the nature of a person or self-conscious being.

17. Grammar Indicating grammatical person.

18. Tending to make remarks, or be unduly questioning, about another's affairs.

19. Aimed pointedly at the most intimate aspects of a person, especially in a critical or hostile manner.

20. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal.

21. rights appertaining to the person.

22. (Gram.) Denoting person.

23. (Gram.) a verb which is modified or inflected to correspond with the three persons.

24. (Metaph.) the persistent and continuous unity of the individual person, which is attested by consciousness.

25. (Astron.) See under Equation.

26. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner.

27. (Law) the executors or administrators of a person deceased.

28. (Law) movables; chattels; -- opposed to real estate or property. It usually consists of things temporary and movable, including all subjects of property not of a freehold nature.

29. (Gram.) one of the pronouns I, thou, he, she, it, and their plurals.

30. (Law) a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, or the specific recovery of goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action.

31. See under Tithe.

32. Persentinperson.

Examples

1. The goals you set yourself both at work and in your personal life are ambitious.

2. By then he was being asked to ship other items aside from electrical goods and personal effects.

3. The system allows owners to pass profits and losses through to personal tax returns.

4. This could provide funds for each son and so fulfil one of his personal ambitions.

5. He needed to be tough to withstand the personal attacks from the press that scarred his tenure.

6. The exam board should return to this challenge and not deprive future generations of a source of great intellectual and personal enrichment.

7. A number of upcoming personal appearances vanished.

8. A number of hurdles lie ahead before any claim can succeed, including overcoming the time limit on bringing personal injury claims before the courts.

9. There are so many clichés surrounding personal transformation, something that is open to all of us in a way that it wouldn't have been in previous generations.

10. The demise of those empires has had heavy costs in reputation but little in personal hardship.

11. Witness is a temporary term in a personal sense.

12. Residents are not taxed on personal income.

13. They switched us on with their personal attacks.

14. One is the personal injury or negligence claim that comes before a court.

15. The potential for vast personal fortunes suddenly became limitless.

16. Men put in just six months on their personal hygiene.

17. It was really divine and we had great personal timing together.

18. It may have been something more personal.

19. The transferable allowance will rise in line with inflation in the same way as the personal allowance.

20. She has a very particular personal perspective.

21. Write or email me for a guaranteed detailed personal reply.

22. The prospect for personal injury lawyers is alarming.

23. Perhaps he drew attention because of his personal life.

24. Offer to help at mealtimes and with personal care.

25. The deal is subject to a medical and the agreement of personal terms.

26. Often speech is more important than personal appearance.

27. personal tax is only part of the equation.

28. It was not supposed to be a personal attack.

29. His existence is one of personal war.

30. The personal fortunes of today's rich are reaching record heights.

31. personal growth and good leadership are two other areas where the top 20 big firms perform particularly well.

32. Employees say their job is good for personal growth, returning a top five positive score of 85% in our survey.

33. ‘But I decided not to be embarrassed by my illness and to record my experiences on a personal website, for anyone to read.’

34. ‘He is working the streets as hard as anyone, buoyed by a huge personal fortune.’

35. ‘For 200 years prior to this, the garden relied on personal book collections belonging to the various keepers of the garden.’

36. ‘I like to write about my life, but I think that belongs in my personal journal.’

37. ‘Inside laid a treasure trove of personal effects belonging to Earl Sandstrum.’

38. ‘Unless one's size is affecting one's personal health then one should be comfortable being who they are.’

39. ‘People whose personal health may be affected have often been held by the courts to have no standing to make a case.’

40. ‘The room was empty and had no personal items belonging to the presumed occupants.’

41. ‘This is a fine anthology that would be a welcome addition to anyone's personal library.’

42. ‘You might even be forced to liquidate personal assets to pay off creditors.’

43. ‘However, if the firm went bust, the directors would be forced to liquidate their personal assets to pay creditors.’

44. ‘One appears to be on the personal website of a creative writing student at Macquarie University.’

45. ‘In it were all of her personal letters, her journal, and a few treasured childhood trinkets.’

46. ‘You'll use my body as your personal jungle gym, always crawling back over me if you go anywhere in the room.’

47. ‘I believe it is more important to be a good mentor than it is to preserve my personal body of work.’

48. ‘He always placed a sanitary towel under their left armpit and also removed personal items from their bodies.’

49. ‘He had his wallet and personal possessions on his body, so there was no reason to suspect any robbery.’

50. ‘Each individual will receive a personal letter of apology, acknowledging the harm caused by the process.’

51. ‘It's not my personal presence here that will bring the disease under control, but bearing down on the disease to eliminate it.’

52. ‘Both our days are outrageously improved by actual personal contact.’

53. ‘The position requires a high degree of personal presence, creativity and imagination.’

54. ‘The second benefit is that a blog can give your practice a voice and a personal presence.’

55. ‘It does not necessarily, I think, involve the personal presence of the person claiming to occupy.’

56. ‘It is God's personal presence that restores Job's confidence in divine order.’

57. ‘Ingram was presenting his personal opinion which he submitted in a letter to The Peak.’

58. ‘The book includes actual postcards carrying personal messages as well as popular songs and poetry of the time.’

59. ‘It took a personal letter from President Lyndon Johnson in late December to win their release.’

60. ‘In a personal letter to voters, the Tory leader has asked them to send application forms to a national party centre in Dartford, Kent.’

61. ‘Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke of his distress and the Prince of Wales wrote personal letters of condolence to both families.’

62. ‘And each of them sent me a personal letter with drawings and wishes to a fast recovery.’

63. ‘So, we went back to the office and wrote my personal letter of the events, and took it to the police station after their break.’

64. ‘He stashed away hundreds of Diana-related items, from signed CDs to personal letters to photographs.’

65. ‘You could also simply make a donation or bring some Christmas cheer by sending a child a personal letter from Father Christmas.’

66. ‘Christopher said the letter expressed his personal opinion and not that of the party.’

67. ‘I write this in the form of a personal letter from me to you, if for no other reason than to blunder and blur genres further.’

68. ‘Some of the more threatening and personal letters were passed on to police.’

69. ‘All she did was read out a personal letter written by Dan in which he denied involvement.’

70. ‘He is much less certain and dogmatic talking about emotions and personal relationships.’

71. ‘The relationship between a political figure's personal life and his public career is a tricky one.’

72. ‘Their argument is that nothing is too personal or private for public discourse.’

73. ‘A personal relationship with Jesus involves mind, emotions, spirit and body.’

74. ‘On one hand, surveys show that privacy and security of personal information are key public concerns.’

75. ‘His point of view was to present a character study in a series of private and personal relationships.’

76. ‘Do convictions rather than practical and personal concerns dictate your decisions?’

77. ‘He specialises in personal forecasts, career and relationship issues.’

78. ‘The relationship you build can be a bit more personal throughout your whole career.’

79. ‘This is a period of personal identity, intimate relationships and emancipation.’

80. ‘Getting the facts straight rather than using personal emotions is a good first step.’

81. ‘Then, when it comes time to have a personal relationship with your Creator, you would rather not.’

82. ‘Another is that the ban reduces our personal freedom and sanitises public spaces, treating us rather like children.’

83. ‘He's interested in the dynamics of very intimate personal relationships.’

84. ‘Emotions express the intimate personal measuring of what is happening in our social lives.’

85. ‘It may well be that he was concerned about his personal exposure to liability in relation to the real estate conveyance.’

86. ‘The spectrum has ranged from aggressive public demonstrations to intimate personal explorations.’

87. ‘Love and romance in personal relationships lead to special bonding and intimacy today.’

88. ‘We have developed a very close, personal relationship, a relationship of trust.’

89. ‘She took me on a tour of the Institute and spoke about the positive impact working there has had on her both from a career and personal point of view.’

90. ‘It's very rude to relay personal remarks, but I've made a career out of it - so why stop now?’

91. ‘I suggest that it is time you made a ruling on that, and said that those sorts of personal insinuations are inappropriate.’

92. ‘He decided to get very personal and to refer to my own marriage.’

93. ‘The only problem is if we go from the deeply offensive and personal to the deeply offensive and general.’

94. ‘Don't you take any notice, girl, I say, when people make uncalled-for personal remarks.’

95. ‘I believe that we will be judged on this record and not by unkind and unjustified personal remarks in the press.’

96. ‘Some lowly wonk writes a few personal remarks to go in at the top and you're laughing.’

97. ‘He heard her say each name, accompanied by a more personal remark for each.’

98. ‘The personal remarks were coming think and as fast as those concerning my stature and physic.’

99. ‘I just want to make a remark of a more personal nature about my work.’

100. ‘It is certainly typical of the threats and personal attacks which now characterise the three-way bid battle.’

101. ‘In her taste, her cultural and political awareness, even her personal appearance, she seems like a product of the Rive Gauche.’

102. ‘On some Tory blog's comment section this is a cue for speculating about personal hygiene of and body hair on greenies.’

103. ‘As a youngster he has overcome racism and through his life there have been enough personal body blows to ensure that he appreciates the good in his world.’

104. ‘I put it down to the fact that as he's Italian the encroaching of personal body space was just something that came with the territory.’

105. ‘In an honor culture, a personal attack on the body could be countered only by an attack in kind.’

106. ‘I am not talking about the A-Z of sex, but something to do with personal hygiene, or maybe just to fund some other college course.’

107. ‘People pay more attention to personal hygiene and quit bad habits.’

108. ‘I assure you, my personal hygiene is of the highest standard.’

109. ‘A certain lack of personal hygiene pervades the carriage, and then yes, you guessed it, three of 'em decide my table is fair game.’

110. ‘I'm assuming that smelling like sea creatures is a good thing and not a comment on my personal hygiene.’

111. ‘Safe and hygienic food handling procedures and facets pertaining to personal hygiene were also discussed.’

112. ‘I never managed to ask or find out why: perhaps it was nerves, or maybe personal hygiene wasn't quite so extreme in those days.’

113. ‘I have neglected personal hygiene or household chores until I have finished a novel.’

114. ‘He was at his friend's house getting high when he noticed the grubby living conditions and lack of personal hygiene.’

115. ‘It is now up to you to ask your doctors whether they are practicing even the most basic acts of personal hygiene.’

116. ‘If you are seriously concerned about these children, then do the right thing and improve their diet and personal hygiene habits.’

117. ‘The care will cover all personal hygiene, dressing, assistance with eating and preparing food and help with mobility.’

118. ‘These cults are a group of jobless people who are more interested in their facial hair than their personal hygiene.’

119. ‘The educated elite is conscious about their personal hygiene and health.’

120. ‘I had meals in there and my personal hygiene was extremely poor.’

121. ‘He also digs sharing information about his personal body art that you'd probably rather not know.’

122. ‘We must, then, somehow think of God as both personal and impersonal, and in one sense, it would seem, this presents no difficulty.’

123. ‘I was also able to make contact with spiritual entities personal to me, even explore some past life stuff a bit.’

124. ‘Goethe's Faust reminds us forever that the devil is personal, not impersonal.’

125. ‘It also kept the idea of evil as a devilish personal force prowling around ready to get into you.’

126. ‘We are governed by a personal living God and he has decreed the means by which we accomplish his purposes.’

127. ‘A true Christian is a person who has come into living fellowship and communion with the Lord Jesus as a personal Saviour.’

128. ‘They found each other through a personals advertisement Ehud placed in an Indian newspaper.’

129. ‘You know the drill: we look for the creepiest, sleaziest ads in the Leader newspaper personals and you kiddies get to vote for the worst one.’

130. ‘Jacob, a 30-something guy advertised in a personals magazine and thought he had found his partner.’

131. ‘They might not have been expecting a review so much as the more traditional coded message in the personals section of the Seattle Times.’

132. ‘Or if you were going to advertise in a newspaper, do it in the personals section.’

133. ‘The following is a typical advert from the personals column of the London Review of Books.’

134. ‘Because of an incorrect personals advertisement, a Shanghai man identified as Ying recently had a difficult time with his wife.’

135. ‘My idea is to create an online community for Dublin where locals can connect with one another via classifieds, forums, personals etc.’

136. ‘Newspapers, used to fielding personals, are finding their business diminished by online dating services.’

137. ‘If the client acquired them independently through the personals, they can post on the various online message boards about their experience.’

138. ‘Further legitimation for this reading could be seen in Jim's response to Roberta's advertisement to Susan in the personals.’

139. ‘Another way to find good dating sites, is by asking friends and co-workers who may have tried, or are using online dating or personals services.’

140. ‘The two businesses still attract more total visitors, thanks to their broad offerings of games, music, personals, and much more.’

141. ‘So the only option I have seems to be online personals.’

142. ‘I was thinking about taking out an ad in the personals.’

143. ‘It's not because he met me, he assures me, but because of the ‘stigma’ attached to Internet personals.’

144. ‘I have tried the dating personals on the web and I have met a few people.’

145. ‘I am now back in the market, and I've posted a new personals ad.’

146. ‘Like personals listings, the exchanges are primarily information services, linking suppliers with buyers.’

147. ‘OK, so we don't truly shop for handheld devices through the personals.’

148. a personal favor