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estate

[ih-steyt]

noun

a piece of landed property, especially one of large extent with an elaborate house on it: to have an estate in the country.

Law.

property or possessions.

the legal position or status of an owner, considered with respect to property owned in land or other things.

the degree or quantity of interest that a person has in land with respect to the nature of the right, its duration, or its relation to the rights of others.

interest, ownership, or property in land or other things.

the property of a deceased person, a bankrupt, etc., viewed as an aggregate.

British. a housing development.

a period or condition of life: to attain to man's estate.

a major political or social group or class, especially one once having specific political powers, as the clergy, nobles, and commons in France or the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and commons in England.

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condition or circumstances with reference to worldly prosperity, estimation, etc.; social status or rank.

Obsolete. pomp or state.

Obsolete. high social status or rank.

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verb (used with object)

Obsolete. to establish in or as in an estate.

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Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English estat < Middle French; cognate with Provençal estat. See state

Synonyms
1. See property.

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Without the licenses, the stations would be piles of equipment and real estate.

In extreme cases of neglect, the government should be able to force the sale of an estate to its tenants.

Bequests can be made in the form of a specific gift of cash or property, or as a percentage of an estate.

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Without the licenses, the stations would be piles of equipment and real estate.

In extreme cases of neglect, the government should be able to force the sale of an estate to its tenants.

Bequests can be made in the form of a specific gift of cash or property, or as a percentage of an estate.

Also, dollar damage goes up with wealth and real estate value.

There have been many sightings there by folks who no nothing about this old estate.

If it should rain, slip into a stone-and-log shelter, or grab a fireside seat in the estate house and have tea.

The real estate market may be circling the drain, but web business is booming.

It is here you can find creative and interesting uses of desktop real estate.

When you die, the bill gets paid out of your estate.

He still punches the figurative time clock every day as the manager of an industrial park and other real estate developments.

Virtual worlds offer millions of online visitors the chance to ride a dragon or build a fake real estate empire.

Florida-real estate so scrub-pine cheap that the campground is waterfront.

The pair, who met in architecture school, took advantage of every inch of real estate by reimagining how rooms could be used.

The two daughters had quite different upbringings, and as primary guardians of the estate they play equally divergent roles.

In those days there were also shock waves to real estate markets, local economy, unemployment.

If your estate is small or nonexistent, you've gotten lots of free medical care.

After all, real estate here fetches some of the highest prices in the world.

People around the world wreck coastal habitats through aquaculture, agriculture, timber extraction and real estate development.

If it's an estate oil, all the olives were grown on the owner's land.

Thanks to new tunneling technologies, real estate trends are down.

All homeowners who aren't also in the real estate business are, by definition, amateurs.

The real estate market was so hot that salesmen were taking people up in small planes and selling lots from the air.

Using his quiet country estate as headquarters, the great naturalist was a reclusive revolutionary.

Finally, it turns out that location is as important in gardening as it is in real estate.

Some real estate agents condemn the service, while others have become its biggest users.

Back to real estate, it is also a shame than governments have sustained real estate prices with tax incentives for buyers.

For example, all real estate is subsidized, but urban real estate is much more expensive.

With more real estate and less overhead costs than print, the webzine grew quickly.

But to real estate developers, the canyons were empty wasteland, waiting to be turned into homes.

We all need a little extra screen real estate from time to time.

The stink of exhaust, the mind-numbing tedium of traffic, parking lots blighting central city real estate.

That's where you put your money that is in excess of the exemption from estate and probate taxes and fees.

Internet domain markets offer incredible research opportunities for real estate scholars.

Real estate value grows based on population increase vs available land/housing decrease.

So much potentially useful real estate going to waste.

It had a good run, but we've decided to turn our focus to other parts of our real estate pages.

Students and graduates looking for help in achieving their real estate career goals have a new resource.

The amount used to fund a gift annuity is also removed from your estate for probate and estate tax purposes.

In a few cases, real estate speculators are stepping in.

Prepare a lecture or presentation based upon your experiences in real estate development.

But it may be reversed if real estate values drop a lot fascinating debate.

Tax haven status has attracted the affluent, inflating real estate.

Atlanta is a city of commerce, and if you are a real estate developer or have something to sell, bring it on.

The value of those instruments moves up and down based upon the general markets for, say, stocks or real estate.

Sip the inn's estate coffee at breakfast, then take the farm manager's.

It looks nice, but it takes up a little more real estate than the conventional layout.

It appears that searches for estate agents work better than those for home financing.

Others have asked for volume controls to be inserted into the valuable piece of keyboard real estate.

Any buisnessman, investor or real estate agency knows that when the econemy is down that is when to buy, build or invest.

She took the guise of a web-focused real estate mogul.

The racks leading up to the checkout line are prime real estate for impulse buys.

And the neural real estate devoted to vision increases.

We need to learn to live and survive on a piece of real estate that is close by so rescues can be mounted if necessary.

Major deleterious results included a freeze on credit and a real estate crash as millions of homes went into foreclosure.

Your real estate broker can find you the right home, the right buyer, the right mortgage broker and the right contractor.

Some sellers offer cash incentives to real estate brokers who sell their properties quickly.

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World English Dictionary

estate (ɪˈsteɪt)

—n
1.	a large piece of landed property, esp in the country
2.	chiefly (Brit) a large area of property development, esp of new houses or (trading estate) of factories
3.	property law
	a. property or possessions
	b. the nature of interest that a person has in land or other property, esp in relation to the right of others
	c. the total extent of the real and personal property of a deceased person or bankrupt
4.	States General See also fourth estate Also called: estate of the realm an order or class of persons in a political community, regarded collectively as a part of the body politic: usually regarded as being the lords temporal (peers), lords spiritual, and commons
5.	state, period, or position in life, esp with regard to wealth or social standing: youth's estate; a poor man's estate

[C13: from Old French estat, from Latin status condition, state]

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Word Origin & History

estate

early 13c., from Anglo-Fr. astat, O.Fr. estat, from L. status "state or condition," from root of stare "to stand" from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Oldest sense is of "rank, standing, condition;" sense of "property" is late 14c., from "worldly prosperity;" specific

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application to "landed property" (usually of large extent) is first recorded in Amer.Eng. 1620s. A native word for this was M.E. ethel (O.E. æðel) "ancestral land or estate, patrimony." Meaning "collective assets of a dead person or debtor" is from 1830. The three estates (in Sweden and Aragon, four) conceived as orders in the body politic date from late 14c. In France, they are the clergy, nobles, and townsmen; in England, originally the clergy, barons, and commons, later Lords Spiritual, Lords Temporal, and commons. For Fourth Estate see four.

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