estate

[ɪˈsteɪt]

Definition:
1. Everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities.
2. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
3. 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.

Use 'estate' in a sentence:

1. His estate was valued at $150,000.
2. Hire someone with experience, someone who knows about real estate.
3. By investing in real estate, he was one of the richest men in the United States.
4. Japanese companies have been turning away from production and have moved into real estate.
5. This document spells out who gets what from your estate.
6. The murderer may well come from the estate.
7. Real estate advertising is particularly truthful now.
8. He factored his cousin's estate for five years.
9. When employees are properly compensated, employers' real estate savings will be modest.
10. My brother is a real estate agent.
11. He had a long career in real estate.
12. HGTV has seriously changed how people view real estate.
13. They live on a housing estate.
14. His estate is now appraised at a figure near $1,000,000.
15. Most modern housing estates are terrible and inevitably done on the cheap.
16. Some experience in real estate could be an asset.
17. I left my parents' house, relinquished my estate and my patrimony.
18. We lived on an estate.
19. Japanese corporations have been turning away from production and have diverted into finance and real estate.
20. Real estate lending has become the biggest growth area for American banks.
21. His estate was valued at$ 150,000.
22. Because real estate advertising is particularly truthful now.
23. For many they clearly represent an alternative to run-of-the-mill estate cars.
24. The money will be used for the estate's upkeep.
25. He had no title and was not the heir to a great estate.
26. The Advertising Standards Authority accused estate agents of using blatant untruths.
27. His mother's small estate had passed to him after her death.
28. I finally settled on a Mercedes estate.
29. He used to live on the estate.
30. The estate is generally a producer of high quality wines.
31. By his own admission, he evaded paying taxes as a Florida real-estate speculator.
32. It was his custom in buying real estate to offer a rather low price.
33. The estate is at the centre of a bitter turf war between rival drug gangs.
34. They have mostly invested their money in expensive real estate.
35. He gambled away his family estate on a single throw of the dice.
36. He bequeathed his entire estate to his daughter.
37. He bequeathed his daughter his entire estate.
38. Her estate was left to her daughter.
39. He made a fortune in real estate.
40. When the estate agent showed us this house, we knew we wanted it right away.
41. Remember, the estate agent is working for the vendor.
42. "I'm sorry," he told the real estate agent, "but we really must go now."
43. Well, my brother is a real estate agent.
44. I naturally took him to be the owner of the estate.
45. The local vicar has agreed to marry us in the chapel on the estate.
46. Landowners frequently left the management of their estates to tenant farmers.
47. She lives in a tower block on an estate in London.
48. Real estate remains a buyer's market.
49. My father sold real estate.