Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ESTATE

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Definitions of ESTATE

1. The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
2. The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. [from 19th c.]
3. (nowrare, archaic) state; condition. [from 13th c.]
4. (archaic) Status, rank. [from 13th c.]
5. (archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions. [from 14th c.]
6. (obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman. [14th]
7. (historical) 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 (Estates of the realm). [from 14th c.]
8. (legal) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land. [from 15th c.]
9. An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership. [from 18th c.]
10. (UK, sometimespejorative) A housing estate. [from 20th c.]
11. (UK, automotive) A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or removable seating). [from 20th c.]
12. (obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
13. (computing) An organization's collective information technology resources.
14. (jewelry, euphemism) Previously owned; secondhand.
15. (obsolete, transitive) To give an estate to.
16. (obsolete, transitive) To bestow upon.

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Examples of Using ESTATE in a Sentence

• His maternal great-uncle Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, and Octavian was named in Caesar's will as his adopted son and heir; as a result, he inherited Caesar's name, estate, and the loyalty of his legions.
• His 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, expressed support for progressive taxation and an estate tax, and stimulated a wave of philanthropy.
• An estate at Abercarn was owned by the ironmaster Richard Crawshay; in 1808, it passed to his son-in-law, the industrialist and politician Benjamin Hall.
• Both trios were composed during Beethoven's stay at Countess Marie von Erdödy's estate, and both are dedicated to her for her hospitality.
• Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War.
• The Prince-Bishopric of Brandenburg was an imperial estate of the Holy Roman Empire for some time, probably starting about 1161/1165.
• The estate and its original castle were bought from the Farquharson family in 1852 by Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria.
• Following the railway's decision to divest non-core freight railway assets prior to the company's privatization in 1995, it transferred the tower to the Canada Lands Company, a federal Crown corporation responsible for the government's real estate portfolio.
• It specializes in institutional equity, fixed-income sales and trading, and serving the middle market with investment banking services, prime brokerage, and commercial real estate financing.
• Constructed in 1850 by the Charlton family, descendants of the noted Border Reivers family of the English Middle March, the lodge formed part of the extensive Hesleyside estate, located some 10 miles from Hesleyside Hall itself.
• Inmobiliaria Colonial, a Spanish corporation, which includes companies in the domains of real estate.
• The Dominican Republic is an upper-middle income developing country with important sectors including mining, tourism, manufacturing (medical devices, electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals), energy, real estate, infrastructure, telecommunications and agriculture.
• Discounted cash flow analysis is widely used in investment finance, real estate development, corporate financial management, and patent valuation.
• Oxford was heir to the second oldest earldom in the kingdom, a court favourite for a time, a sought-after patron of the arts, and noted by his contemporaries as a lyric poet and court playwright, but his volatile temperament precluded him from attaining any courtly or governmental responsibility and contributed to the dissipation of his estate.
• The novel Flambards (book one) features a teenage orphan and heiress Christina Parsons, who comes to live at Flambards, the impoverished Essex estate owned by her crippled and tyrannical uncle, William Russell, and his two sons, Mark and Will.
• Her entire collection was eventually sold to the Dutch government, along with her and her husband, Anton Kröller's, large forested country estate.
• John Jacob Astor (born Johann Jakob Astor; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848) was a German-born American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor.
• The major industries driving the Kenyan economy include financial services, agriculture, real estate, manufacturing, logistics, tourism, retail and energy.
• Kemp Town Estate, also known as Kemp Town, is a 19th-century Regency architecture residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England.
• The name Kington Magna means 'great King's Town'; it derives from cyne- (later cyning) and tūn, Old English for 'royal estate or manor'.
• Bormann joined a paramilitary Freikorps organisation in 1922 while working as manager of a large estate.
• Its defining features included a large, sometimes fortified manor house in which the lord of the manor and his dependants lived and administered a rural estate, and a population of labourers or serfs who worked the surrounding land to support themselves and the lord.
• Founded and established by Ottawa real estate developer Bruce Firestone, the team is the second NHL franchise to use the Ottawa Senators name.
• The village has its origins in 1785, when Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, then secretary to the Prince of Wales, leased a large area of moorland from the Duchy of Cornwall estate, hoping to convert it into good farmland.
• Diana was born into the British nobility and grew up close to the royal family, living at Park House on their Sandringham estate.

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