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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
estate car
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A large estate car or van will be needed to transport the coffin, and four to six people to carry it.
▪ An estate car provides even more luggage space.
▪ If an estate car tempts you, it could pay to choose one with the option of an extra row of seats.
▪ Off we set, in the estate car, for Liverpool Street station, London.
▪ You can use an estate car.
Wiktionary
estate car

n. station wagon

WordNet
estate car

n. another name for a station wagon [syn: shooting brake]

Usage examples of "estate car".

All the streetlights, the white globe lights in the industrial estate car parks, and the lights inside the buildings and on their walls, went out.

Idling by the gates was a red estate car she'd seen parked further away when they were leaving.

He snap-closed his notebook and began to stalk back to where a bulky French estate car was nuzzling the rear of the patrol vehicle.

I adjusted the set of my shoulders, checked my adam's apple was still working, walked past a big estate car parked in the gravel drive, and went in through a side door, carrying my ancient, anonymous bass guitar wrapped in a couple of large Woolworth's bags.

The heavy estate car skidded across the gravel in front of the house, coming to a halt in the flowerbed just below the kitchen window.

They unloaded stores from an estate car and made two trips out to the boat.

Then the first three men and the drunk man went out to the boat, and the other men drove away in the old van and the estate car, and that was that.

Exactly on the dot of ten a small estate car stopped outside the house.

Catherine pulled up outside the manor house, where a five-year-old Toyota estate car sat in the drive.

Then a signpost he had seen before, soon followed by the rusting wreck of a blue estate car which he remembered having seen crashed into the base of an old oak tree.

Jack looked dazed, and let Tony help him into the front of the estate car as if his thoughts were miles away.