estate
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is a type of: belongings, holding, property - something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someonesubtypes:
- gross estate - the total valuation of the estate's assets at the time of the person's death
- net estate - the estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate; the estate then left to be distributed (and subject to federal and state inheritance taxes)
- estate for life, life estate - (law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it
- jointure, legal jointure - (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower
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is a type of: immovable, real estate, real property, realty - property consisting of houses and landsubtypes:
- freehold - an estate held in fee simple or for life
- glebe - plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
- leasehold - land or property held under a lease
- smallholding - a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation
- homestead - land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law
- feoff, fief - a piece of land held under the feudal system
- barony - the estate of a baron
- countryseat - an estate in the country
- crown land - land that belongs to the Crown
- manor - the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)
- seigneury, seigniory, signory - the estate of a seigneur
- hacienda - a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries
- plantation - an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
- entail - land received by fee tail
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domain region:
- britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
- france, french republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
is a type of: class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum - people having the same social, economic, or educational statussubtypes:- first estate, lords spiritual - the clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain
- lords temporal, second estate - the nobility in France and the peerage in Britain
- commons, third estate - the common people
- fourth estate - the press, including journalists, newspaper writers, photographers
is a part of: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica, state - a politically organized body of people under a single governmentsame as: estate of the realm, the three estates
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