Collocations for "estate"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "estate" in context.
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estate
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- his [family's, mother's] estate
- [an extensive, a large, a vast] estate
- large [coffee, wine, crop] estates
- UK: a [government, social] housing estate
- UK: live on a [council, housing] estate
- UK: located in [a business, an industrial, a trading] estate
- UK: [hang out, play football] on the estate
- an estate covering [thirty] acres
- the estate [covers, has] thirty acres
- mark the [boundaries, limits] of the estate
- the family [owns, has] an estate in [the country, Washington]
- a [large, sizeable] piece of real estate
- [works, makes a living] in real estate
- [handles, administers] the family's estate
- assigned to [manage, distribute] his estate (after death)
- pay taxes on the estate
- inherited the (entire) estate
- left the estate to her [children, grandchildren]
- a member of the fourth estate
- UK: the estate of the realm
- UK: [works as, is] an estate agent
- UK: pay estate agent [fees, commissions]
- real estate [firms, agents, agencies]
- pay (real) estate taxes
'estate' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
administrator
- agency
- agent
- assignment
- auction
- butler
- buy
- car
- caretaker
- claim
- commercial
- daily
- deed
- demise
- disposal
- dispose
- domestic
- earl
- enclose
- entail
- game
- grand
- granddaughter
- grandfather
- grandma
- grandpa
- grandson
- heir
- housing
- inherited
- lush
- master
- maze
- mistress
- noble
- outright
- parcel
- portion
- prime
- proprietary
- rape
- real
- realtor
- recess
- registrar
- retainer
- scam
- secluded
- sell
- servant