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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
estate
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an estate carBritish English (= one with a door at the back and folding seats)
▪ Once you have children, an estate car is very useful.
council estate
estate agent
estate car
estate tax
fourth estate
housing estate
industrial estate
real estate agent
real estate
▪ a fall in the value of real estate
trading estate
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ Nevertheless it was the great estates of absentee landowners that gave Andalusia its reputation.
▪ The days of the great estates are no more.
▪ Apparently he has a great estate beyond the Sierra Nevada - big hacienda or some such thing.
▪ The house, centrepiece of a great estate, had once been the home of a Maharajah.
▪ After the Barons' War, a number of feudal magnates with great local estates were appointed as Forest wardens.
▪ Some of them supplemented wages from the great estates with tiny holdings, where they were lucky enough to have them.
▪ If it could not, then its claim to be one of the great estates in the land was greatly reduced.
▪ The great estates were not always farmed directly by their owners.
industrial
▪ On the bus home she passed, as usual, the new industrial estate.
▪ The Gabriel-Havez school in Creil where they live stands in the heart of the town's industrial estate.
▪ The industrial estate was planned by the railway engineer Joseph Locke.
▪ To the north, the Grand Union Canal drew the line before the industrial estate.
▪ It is an agricultural area, growing roots and grain, with milling facilities on the modern industrial estate.
▪ The whole business here at Miss Bedwelty's seemed far less daunting than it did out on the industrial estate.
▪ There have been a number of burglaries at the Springtown and Pennyburn industrial estates.
▪ Newton Aycliffe's industrial estate has suffered a series of burglaries and car crime this week.
large
▪ In addition to the palatial and leafy suburbs, there are areas of inner-city terraced housing awaiting redevelopment and large outlying council estates.
▪ Likewise, older people whose children are grown may not need life insurance unless they expect to leave a large estate.
▪ They relate in fact much more closely to economic and agricultural units, albeit often within larger estates and holdings.
▪ The South, in the early l960s, had only rice, large estates and the open sea.
▪ The Sinhalese were however generally unwilling to work as labourers on large estates.
▪ An Institute of Agrarian Reform was founded to break up large estates and redistribute them to landless labourers.
legal
▪ It is therefore abolished as a legal estate.
▪ Lord Wellworthy can enforce the covenant only whilst he retains the legal estate in the Stately Mansion Hotel.
▪ Where the proprietor of the legal estate has died, the sellers will be the personal representatives of the estate.
▪ The Statute of Wills 1540 gave testators power to create future legal estates by their wills.
▪ One might imagine, for instance, that it has turned equitable estates and rights into legal estates and rights.
▪ Estates in futuro Before 1 January 1926 there were three main varieties of legal estates in futuro.
▪ Notice should be given if the trustees of the legal estate are persons other than the husband or wife.
▪ Equity only protects the bonafide purchaser for value of a legal estate and so the rule should be of no application.
local
▪ Information from local estate agents shows the housing market to remain stagnant.
▪ Some local real estate developers think the 200 to 300 homes per year estimate is unrealistic.
▪ Some conveyancers encourage local estate agents to forward details of a new transaction before a sale is negotiated.
▪ A similar assault can be observed in real estate as companies such as Century 21 gobble up local real estate agencies.
▪ The other method of entry to the Rowdies was by joining one's mates from school or local housing estate.
▪ This will bring the benefits of home ownership within the reach of more people and introduce more diversity in local authority estates.
▪ He works on our local trading estate and I see him every day after school and at weekends.
▪ Those who settle find it hard to create a community, according to Joyce Weis, a local estate agent.
new
▪ On the bus home she passed, as usual, the new industrial estate.
▪ On a new estate, there may be nothing.
▪ After 1945 vast new estates, mainly of semi-detached houses, began to extend further out.
▪ A lot of it was new estates - Well, same as Newtown.
▪ And residents of the new Carrick Hill estate are delighted with the changes taking place.
▪ What a good idea to build us a new housing estate so that we can pay property tax!
▪ This time it was Simon Thorpe, the new estate manager.
real
▪ Since then Sotheby's business has spread into less traditional auction house areas, including real estate.
▪ Lawrence invested in real estate and golfed with Bob Hope.
▪ Staff communities will be created connected by job function, without the same need to occupy expensive real estate.
▪ The dictionary prompted real estate consultant Joel Ascetto to design a three-hour course to help Rhode Island real estate agents.
▪ J., real estate broker Terry Gamble.
▪ Republican Senator james Inhofe of Oklahoma, who was a real estate developer.
▪ At least in Baja California, real estate should remain a prime factor in building new economic muscle.
■ NOUN
agency
▪ A similar assault can be observed in real estate as companies such as Century 21 gobble up local real estate agencies.
▪ Low cost endowment business through building society and estate agency connections up 19% despite reduced mortgage lending.
▪ The position John is applying for is as a trainee with a real estate agency.
▪ Nationwide announced that 300 redundancies will be made when it closes 58 of its 361 estate agency branches.
▪ More than 10% of its mortgages now spring from its estate agencies.
▪ In 1987 they began to acquire estate agencies.
agent
▪ It will Bteach real estate agents about the customs of minority groups.
▪ Homeowners who want to sell their homes without a real estate agent can now advertise their residential properties free on the Internet.
▪ Not an estate agent, a valuer, a lawyer or a property slump in sight.
▪ The real estate agent said one thing.
▪ Ask your estate agent to send a representative with potential buyers.
▪ Real estate agents are independent contractors and can change offices at their discretion.
▪ Parents that move into a new area will often ask estate agents about schools in the neighbourhood.
▪ In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come, the estate agent from Sudbury.
broker
▪ J., real estate broker Terry Gamble.
▪ Faison last week hired commercial real estate broker Cushman&038;.
car
▪ If an estate car tempts you, it could pay to choose one with the option of an extra row of seats.
▪ A large estate car or van will be needed to transport the coffin, and four to six people to carry it.
▪ Off we set, in the estate car, for Liverpool Street station, London.
▪ An estate car provides even more luggage space.
▪ You can use an estate car.
▪ Driven unladen, estate cars are often stiff-legged.
country
▪ The story went that after the tragedy Godolphin had retired to his country estate, and never again ventured beyond its perimeters.
▪ They had private homes or apartments, country estates, special restaurants and shops.
▪ The country estate covers an area of 106 acres, to be developed in phases.
▪ He has a job as well, selling country estates for Sotheby's real estate arm.
▪ In 1724 the University Garden needed more space and Boerhaave used his newly purchased country estate at nearby Oud-Poelgeest as an extension.
▪ I first met Wells at a weekend party at Max Beaverbrook's country estate in the late 1930s.
▪ When they say they love their country, do they mean their country estates?
▪ I was staying on a large country estate, taking part in a week's music course.
developer
▪ Interbrew had spent most of 1997 negotiating with Toronto real estate developer Murray Frum.
▪ The real customers of the Department of Housing and Urban Development have not been poor urban dwellers, but real estate developers.
▪ Several venture capital funds, former owners and other real estate developers reportedly have shown interest in the landmark.
▪ Republican Senator james Inhofe of Oklahoma, who was a real estate developer.
▪ They were friends of his, real estate developers with no expertise whatsoever in media, much less multimedia.
▪ Some local real estate developers think the 200 to 300 homes per year estimate is unrealistic.
▪ Nevertheless, real estate developers passionately promoted moving to Los Angeles as the secular equivalent of being born again.
▪ The national association of large real estate developers sent its president to assist the process.
housing
▪ Neighbourhood houses could soon be set up on many housing estates in Darlington, Coun Bill Dixon said.
▪ It was tempting to see its potential as another fun palace or shopping centre or - this being Liverpool - housing estate.
▪ The Housing Act 1988 gave further encouragement to the breakup of the large housing estates remaining under local authority control.
▪ Some were corporation housing estates, reservations for thee rehabilitation of the working class.
▪ Seven Football League players from the same Trimdon Village housing estate will share a table.
▪ The 44-year old was found at 8am lying in Birkhall Parade, in Aberdeen's Mastrick housing estate.
▪ Read in studio Work has begun to demolish a council housing estate built almost seventy years ago.
▪ The other method of entry to the Rowdies was by joining one's mates from school or local housing estate.
investment
▪ I have no hope of being a big legal giant-in fact, my living comes largely from my commercial real estate investments.
▪ Developers Diversified is a real estate investment trust that acquires, owns and manages shopping and business centers.
▪ New loans now typically come from large Wall Street investment houses and real estate investment trusts that favor large builders.
▪ Other conservative buys include real estate investment trusts, utility stocks and tax-free municipal bonds.
market
▪ The real estate market in the fire zone is slow, and the ultimate sales prices are discouraging.
▪ The real estate market is not unaffected but it is not seriously hampered.
▪ The real estate market, the largest component of the local economy, has grown to record levels.
▪ Payne specialized in converting apartments to condominiums when it was considered cutting edge in the residential real estate market.
tax
▪ The second-round effects of the estate tax may be seen in other areas.
▪ Alderman Keane keeps his brother on the powerful board of real estate tax appeals.
▪ Buy enough life insurance to cover your estate taxes.
▪ In fact, because of the way income and estate taxes work, many experts caution about overuse of tax-deferred vehicles.
▪ Last year, the city instituted a real estate tax.
▪ It also imposed an estate tax.
■ VERB
build
▪ There's a place on the edge of the town where they'd built a council estate somewhere back in the fifties.
▪ Today, he has built a successful real estate business for him-self.
▪ They'd built estates after the war with no amenities at all and they didn't learn from that either.
▪ Sedimentrich runoff from logging, road building and real estate development has been filling the lake with nitrogen and phosphorous.
▪ He built numerous estate buildings, including the Bottle Lodges which cost around £9,000, and was constantly in debt.
buy
▪ They were both businessmen, they both bought and sold real estate, and they both dabbled in other investments.
▪ After some time in London, during which he bought an estate at Blackheath, he returned to his native Ayrshire.
▪ Thienpont bought the estate in 1979; until then it hardly existed in its present form.
▪ In 1736, James Macrae bought the estate and mansion house of Monkton.
▪ In fact, there is another plan afoot, which makes it foolish to be buying an estate.
▪ Neeld decided to become a landlord, and began buying estates in Somerset and West Wiltshire.
▪ Petrashevskii's proposal that merchants be allowed to buy populated estates hardly bespoke a passion for social revolution.
house
▪ The Manchester site, Collyhurst, is a post-war social housing estate on the north-east edge of the city centre.
▪ The suburban housing estates were complete and the lawns were in.
▪ Hugh with his hand on the glass, the housing estates below and beyond.
▪ And cleaners came in from the housing estates, silent with mops, lifting chairs, thinking of dinners, emptying bins.
▪ And on housing estates all along the line, residents came out to watch the strange scene.
▪ That excellent housing estate in Madrid.
▪ Two explosions have left large craters alongside the rail line close to two housing estates at the western edge of Newry.
inherit
▪ Granville eventually inherited the estate and his connection with Stoke Poges may be of more than usual significance.
▪ When Presley turned 25, she inherited an estate currently worth more than $ 100 million.
▪ His father had died and he bought the property with money he'd inherited from the estate.
▪ First, they want to eliminate taxes entirely for people fortunate enough to inherit estates of $ 1 million.
▪ He accepted the arguments of an independent actuary that policyholders' realistic expectation they should benefit from inherited estates was limited.
▪ Two of the daughters, Mary and Annabella, eventually inherited the Scrope estates.
live
▪ Harry Secombe was the third child of a none-too-successful commercial traveller living on a council estate near Swansea.
▪ Then business diminished, and the partners persuaded Stratford to live off his Prescott estate in Gloucestershire.
▪ For some years he lived on his estate at Ballinastow in county Wicklow, where he was high sheriff in 1835.
▪ You are not bothered whether the house is detached or semi-detached, but you do not want to live on an estate.
▪ People living on the estate couldn't believe their eyes when they saw their new neighbour.
▪ News of the rape has appalled parents living on nearby estates.
▪ Skerne Park Community Action Group was set up in 1989 to improve the quality of life for people living on the estate.
▪ This District Discount will keep down bills for elderly people and many low-income inner-city residents living on large estates.
own
▪ If any stores were not wanted by members then they would be added to Costcutter's company owned estate, he added.
▪ Later the de Sewardby family, who took their name from the village, owned the estate.
▪ The vicarage is the only house not owned by the estate.
sell
▪ It found itself unable to prevent the pomeshchiks from buying and selling their estates and rapidly establishing defacto hereditary rights of ownership.
▪ The company will offset the losses by selling stocks and real estate.
▪ He has a job as well, selling country estates for Sotheby's real estate arm.
▪ Other ventures have failed, but now she wants to sell real estate.
▪ So Patels are hard to sell real estate to.
▪ H-P officials said the company did not expect that any shares would need to be sold to pay estate taxes.
▪ During the daytime hours, Monday through Friday, Dad sold real estate.
▪ They were both businessmen, they both bought and sold real estate, and they both dabbled in other investments.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sink estate/school
the fourth estate
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Jane has her own house on a neat housing estate in the south-east.
▪ Mrs. Graham left her entire estate to her three children.
▪ They live in a block of flats on a bleak council estate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After serving in the army during the Napoleonic wars, Széchenyi turned to the management of his estates.
▪ And they are not embracing some of the new strategy of insurance, real estate, tax minimization, and banking.
▪ Apparently he has a great estate beyond the Sierra Nevada - big hacienda or some such thing.
▪ Armoured vans patrol Manchester estate Armoured vans are patrolling an estate in Manchester following three separate shotgun attacks.
▪ He walked between the pines and the cactus as if he were out for a stroll round his estate after dinner.
▪ His professional reputation as a respected real estate expert also has been tarnished, the suit alleges.
▪ No sheep are at the estate this day.
▪ Other ventures have failed, but now she wants to sell real estate.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Estate

Estate \Es*tate"\ ([e^]s*t[=a]t"), n. [OF. estat, F. ['e]tat, L. status, fr. stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. State.]

  1. Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation. ``When I came to man's estate.''
    --Shak.

    Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.
    --Romans xii. 16.

  2. Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.

    God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.
    --Jer. Taylor.

  3. A person of high rank. [Obs.]

    She's a duchess, a great estate.
    --Latimer.

    Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.
    --Mark vi. 21.

  4. A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.

    See what a vast estate he left his son.
    --Dryden.

  5. The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs. [Obs.]

    I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever . . . concerneth manifestly any great portion of people.
    --Bacon.

  6. pl. The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.

  7. (Law) The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc.
    --Abbott.

    The fourth estate, a name often given to the public press.

Estate

Estate \Es*tate"\, v. t.

  1. To establish. [Obs.]
    --Beau. & Fl.

  2. Tom settle as a fortune. [Archaic]
    --Shak.

  3. To endow with an estate. [Archaic]

    Then would I . . . Estate them with large land and territory.
    --Tennyson.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
estate

early 13c., "rank, standing, condition," from Anglo-French astat, Old French estat "state, position, condition, health, status, legal estate" (13c., Modern French état), from Latin status "state or condition, position, place; social position of the aristocracy," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet).\n

\nFor the excrescent e-, see e-. Sense of "property" is late 14c., from that of "worldly prosperity;" specific application to "landed property" (usually of large extent) is first recorded in American English 1620s. A native word for this was Middle English ethel (Old English æðel) "ancestral land or estate, patrimony." Meaning "collective assets of a dead person or debtor" is from 1830.\n

\nThe 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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Wiktionary
estate

n. 1 (label en now rare archaic) state; condition. (from 13thc.) 2 (label en archaic) status, rank. (from 13thc.) 3 (label en archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions. (from 14thc.) 4 (label en obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman. (14th-17thc.)

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WordNet
estate

  1. n. everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities

  2. extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" [syn: land, landed estate, acres, demesne]

  3. a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights [syn: estate of the realm]

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Estate

Estate or The Estate may refer to:

Estate (social)
Estate (album)

Estate is a jazz album by Michel Petrucciani.

The album was recorded in the Forum Recording Studio, Rome during the spring of 1982. The title is the Italian word for "summer", pronounced .

Estate (law)

An estate is the net worth of a person at any point in time alive or dead. It is the sum of a person's assets – legal rights, interests and entitlements to property of any kind – less all liabilities at that time. The issue is of special legal significance on a question of bankruptcy and death of the person. (See inheritance.)

Depending on the particular context, the term is also used in reference to an estate in land or of a particular kind of property (such as real estate or personal estate). The term is also used to refer to the sum of a person's assets only.

Estate (land)

An estate comprises the houses and outbuildings and supporting farmland and woods that surround the gardens and grounds of a very large property, such as a country house or mansion. It is the modern term for a manor, but lacks the latter's now abolished jurisdictional authority. It is an "estate" because the profits from its produce and rents are sufficient to support the household in the house at its center, formerly known as the manor house. Thus "the estate" may refer to all other cottages and villages in the same ownership as the mansion itself, covering more than one former manor. Examples of such great estates are Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, England, and Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire built to replace the former manor house of Woodstock.

"Estate", with its " stately home" connotations, has been a natural candidate for inflationary usage during the 20th century. An estate properly so-called should comprise several farms, and is not well used to describe a single farm.

Estate (song)

"Estate" is an Italian song written in 1960 by Bruno Martino (music) and Bruno Brighetti (lyrics). A minor hit in Italy when released, it eventually became a worldwide jazz standard largely through its interpretation by João Gilberto.

The title refers to summer, and the lyrics describe a love lost during summer and the bitter memories that come with the season ever since. The song was originally titled (and the lyric repeatedly sings) "Odio l'estate" ("I Hate Summer").

Three sets of English-language lyrics have been written, one titled "Maybe This Summer" recorded by Peggy Lee (1965), one titled "Estate" (Summer) by Joel E. Siegel for Shirley Horn (1987), and the other titled "In Summer" by Jon Hendricks (1990).

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Usage examples of "estate".

StregaSchloss on the end of a moth-eaten damask curtain was a bad idea, or maybe the sight of the Borgia money going to such an undeserving home had simply robbed the estate lawyer of the will to live, but miraculously his abseiling suicide attempt didnt kill him.

Inasmuch as it is within the power of a State to provide that one who has undertaken administration of an estate shall remain subject to the order of its courts until said administration is closed, it follows that there can be no question as to the validity of a judgment for unadministered assets obtained on service of publication plus service personally upon an executor in the State in which he had taken refuge and in which he had been adjudged incompetent.

State of Texas filed an original petition in the Supreme Court, in which it asserted that its claim, together with those of three other States, exceeded the value of the estate, that the portion of the estate within Texas alone would not suffice to discharge its own tax, and that its efforts to collect its tax might be defeated by adjudications of domicile by the other States.

Betraying a former opulence, the estate is a confusion of subdivided rooms parceled out to admass occupation of impoverished laborers.

Frank had dated her briefly in high school, but the romance never advanced past petting, and Peggy had married a real estate agent the same month Frank went into the academy.

Bright emergency lights flashed on all over the estate, lighting up the area like a football field.

It may be imagined, therefore, that Sir Alured was proud of his name, of his estate, and of his rank.

One of their measures has been questioned as unwise and impolitic -- that, namely, for amercing and confiscating the estates of certain of the loyalists, and for banishing the most obnoxious among them.

Consequently, the archbishop promulgated an act, in which he deprived the fathers of the Society of the privilege of preaching throughout the archbishopric, of the titles of synodal examiners, and of active and passive right of assembly with the secular priests and the orders both in public acts and in other functions, in consideration of the fact that they refused to concur in the defense of the rights of the ecclesiastical estate.

Oresbius cinched with shining belt who had lived in Hyle hoarding his great wealth, his estate aslope the shores of Lake Cephisus, and round him Boeotians held the fertile plain.

Sir William Scrope, earl of Wiltshire, in 1393, and by his subsequent attainder for high treason and the confiscation of his estates, became a fief of the English crown.

At various times, Madame Aubain received a visit from the Marquis de Gremanville, one of her uncles, who was ruined and lived at Falaise on the remainder of his estates.

After the endless months of paperwork of audit trails and expenditure profiles, of asset calculations and restraint preparations it had come to this: the sordid little drama played out across dozens of cities, hundreds of estates, thousands of similar patches of urban wasteland.

Work in the project for twenty years, for example, and at the age of fifty - in some cases, even earlier - you can have a wide choice of retirements - an estate somewhere on Auk world, a villa on a paradise world, a hunting lodge in another world where there is a variety of game that is unbelievable.

Ruth and the Squire by degrees pleasant homesteads and the great estates which lay outside of the auriferous region.