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Building and its grounds
Answer for the clue "Building and its grounds ", 8 letters:
premises
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Word definitions for premises in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Premises are land and buildings together considered as a property . This usage arose from property owners finding the word in their title deeds , where it originally correctly meant "the aforementioned; what this document is about", from Latin prae-missus ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"building and grounds," 1730; see premise (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. land and buildings together considered as a place of business; "bread is baked on the premises"
Usage examples of premises.
Even with the most fiercely contested of her financial deals, she'd always been able to 'leave' the premises and cool down.
When the maintenance vehicle reached the planet, it lifted not only the food that had been harvested on its cultivated continents but also all the equipment, vacating their premises to allow the indigenous population to expand as populations had a habit of doing.
But exploring appropriate premises was time-consuming, and with Thread continuing to fall, any outbound journeys had to be carefully timed and safe layover shelters built along the way.
We have to buy a rider for every mobile tank they bring onto the premises to live in.
I have kept to the original premises and places in "The Lady in the Tower" while moving along with such advances as possible and extrapolating as seemed logical.
There will be no way she can be removed from these premises, I assure you.
If Vanteer was going to work on the generator, she couldn't remain in the Tower premises, especially after Kincaid's remarks.
As she had left the premises of her own volition, she obviously had not been denied independence of decision and movement.
Petaybee Admin had its own - if empty - premises on the edge of the SpaceBase, and Lonciana was going to find herself to be the recipient of the fourth Nabatira Structural Cube.
And they were clever enough to have opened secure premises to get the weapons they wanted.
And once we have goods on the premises, I'll want to be sure nothing is missing the next day.
The ones allotted to his operation were naturally all up at the cliff premises, their clear beams penetrating the stygian darkness of the tunnel complex.
Everyone on the planet - with one notable exception - was girding their loins and securing their premises against that attack.
Robinton said, escorting Nip to the healer premises beyond the Harper Hall.
I was the only one on the premises, ensconced in a halo of warm, sleep-inducing light while the other offices remained dark and quiet.