estate
327
3.9
- noun
- /ɪˈsteɪt/
:
patrimonio
- He was surprised to find out that his late uncle left him a substantial estate worth millions.
- estate planning
- estate tax
- assets of the estate
It complicates it and it brings in lawsuits, estate planning, accountants.
- It complicates it and it brings in lawsuits, estate planning, accountants.
- We help you with insurance, estate planning.
- It is I love you guy from Louisiana that had an issue with his mom's estate with Louisiana law.
- A man who never made an estate, never made anything.
Examples
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As things stand, the bulk of Lydia's estate is in a kind of legal limbo.
Fiction book (1992) -
The lawyer for the mother's estate, Stolz, wanted to do right by the kids.
Academic text (1999) -
After the woman died, her estate brought a claim against the cruise operator in federal district court.
Academic text (2017) -
I'd like to talk to you about your father's estate.
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Cobell says it took 14 years for her father's estate to go through probate.
Academic text (1999) -
When the DA's office investigated the sudden death of Arty Clay, they found that he left a 13-million dollar estate.
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I give, devise and bequeath my entire estate, real, personal and mixed, onto Bernhardt Tiede the Second, outright and simple.
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Documents from Ben II's 1831 estate reveal a family whose fate and finances remained inextricably intertwined.
Academic text (2011) -
After her father died, she had to sort through his estate to determine its total value.
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The lawyers gathered to discuss the terms of the estate and how to distribute the assets.
Synonyms
∞
1.4
Something that a person or group owns, for example land and buildings
3
4.1
Things a person owns, like clothes, money, and furniture
The total value of all property and money a person owns when they die before debts are paid
Valuable things a person or company owns, like money and buildings
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
29
4.8
A tax on someone's money and property when they die before their family gets it
- Literature
4
5.7
News organizations like newspapers and TV that watch and report on people in power
4
3.3
Money you borrow to buy or build property that the bank can take if you do not pay
- Specialized
2
3.9
A company that owns buildings or land that make money and sells shares to investors
- Texting
1
4.2
A business that buys, sells, or manages virtual land inside online games
- Formal
1
6.1
Things someone owns that can be moved, not land and buildings, like a car or jewelry
- Archaic
A major social group with special political rights in the past, like lords or priests
- Archaic
Church leaders who had special social and political power before the French Revolution
- Specialized
The total value of all property and money a person owns when they die before debts are paid
- Specialized
The money and property left for people after paying debts, funeral, and other costs
- Archaic
Common people in France who are not nobles or priests before the French Revolution
How Big
453
2.8
327
3.9
- Formal
67
6.5
- Specialized
49
3.7
- Specialized
3
4.4
606
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Estate comes from an old word status meaning 'state' or 'condition'. Think of a person's 'state' as all the things they have and owe, which is why an estate is all someone's money and property after they die.