real-estate business
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- noun
- /ˈriːəlɪˌsteɪt ˈbɪznəs/
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inmobiliaria virtual
- The real-estate business is booming in the metaverse.
Examples
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After the crash, several startups pivoted to managing virtual property and launched new real-estate business services.
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Are you interested in the real-estate business?
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Investors are buying parcels of virtual land as part of the growing real-estate business in the metaverse.
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Gaming companies sell storefronts and plots to players, creating a profitable real-estate business inside the platform.
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She decided to invest in the real-estate business within the metaverse to capitalize on virtual properties.
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The new game allows players to engage in the real-estate business by buying and selling digital land.
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Many users are keen to enter the real-estate business as virtual properties continue to gain value.
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Morphology
real-estate + business
The phrase is compositionally predictable as 'business' that deals in 'real estate' (i.e. a company operating in the property market), so learners who know the constituents will grasp the general idea. However, the presented definition narrows the referent to virtual/metaverse land — a domain-specific extension that a B1 learner who only knows the basic words would not reliably infer, so the transparency is partial.
Etymology
Real-estate business for virtual worlds grew by comparison to the real thing: people began buying and selling plots of 'virtual land' just like houses on a street. That's why the old words real and estate are used to name the business of trading digital 'property'.