inheritance
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3.2
- noun
- /ɪnˈhɛrɪtəns/
:
herencia
- After his father's passing, he received a substantial inheritance that included a house and savings.
- inheritance of property
- receive an inheritance
- leave an inheritance
It says you will never receive and inheritance from mom or dad.
- It says you will never receive and inheritance from mom or dad.
- South Dakota has no state income tax, no inheritance tax, and no capital gains tax.
- So I had the inheritance that I could draw up on that.
- Capital gains, inheritances, trusts, these methods of getting income, income you get from wealth.
- So later on with, with my inheritance, I bought Uncle Hubert and Antony's house.
- We can suspect certain things through dissolving Europe's tribes and changing the rules for ownership and inheritance.
- She was always, always trying to figure out how to pick up money from the inheritance at some bank or somewhere and then always doing something.
- A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.
- We heard you had an inheritance sign, this paperwork, it's ours.
Examples
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Then I was afraid that I would lose my inheritance.
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But your kids will not get an inheritance until the debt is paid out of the things that they owned, your mom and dad owned.
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Should there be an inheritance tax?
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Well, speaking of your inheritance, how soon before we can view?
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You know, if you were getting an inheritance from your dad, now you have to split it.
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The girls have no hope of getting back their inheritance.
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A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.
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I just came to check on my inheritance, that's all.
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Formal marriage also establishes rights of inheritance of property, as well as social position.
Academic text (2011) -
All of these properties were part of the Texas inheritance left by May Manning.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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3.9
All the money, property, and debts a person owns when they die
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6.3
The passing of property to someone after death
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3.7
Property or money you receive from a family member after they die
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6.1
A gift of possessions left to someone in a will
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8.1
A gift of money or things left to someone in a will
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8.2
Property passed down in a family or left to a church
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4.3
Money or property you receive from family when they die
Compounds
- Specialized
A scientific idea that explains how traits pass from parents to children in living things
- Specialized
A way a strong gene on the X chromosome causes a trait in children who inherit it
- Specialized
A pattern where a gene on the X chromosome causes males to have a trait and females to be carriers
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Morphology
Etymology
Inheritance comes from an old Latin word for an heir, meaning someone who 'receives' property from a relative, and it is the same family as the word heritage, so inheritance is the money, land, or title you get when someone dies.