real estaten.
/ˈrɪəl ᵻˌsteɪt/, /ˈrɪəl ɛˌsteɪt/, U.S. /ˈri(ə)l əsˌteɪt/, /ˈri(ə)l ɛsˌteɪt/ In modern use esp. North American.
1. Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature (originally contrasted with personal estate n. at estate n. 11a); an interest vested in this; (also) an item of real property; (more generally) buildings or housing in general. Also: the business of real estate; the profession of buying, selling, or renting land, buildings, or housing. Cf. real property at real adj.2 7c.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property
unmoblec1400
unmovable1536
reality1581
immovable1588
realty1616
land1628
real estatea1642
fixed property1845
society > law > legal concepts > [noun] > interest > in property
statea1400
term1424
estate1439
real estatea1642
chattel-interest1767
1605 R. Mason Reasons Academie 93 Estates for yeares, must haue a certaine beginning and ending. Inheritances haue commencements vppon time: and limited to the ende of time. So the first estates, determine in time: and the second being reall estates, onely with time: and not before the ending of time.]
a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) iv. 192 Our Freeman must also have in clear moveable substance to the value of a hundred pounds; this word (Substance) would have extended as well to ones real Estate as to his personal.
1671 N. Philpot (title) Reasons..for a Registry or Remembrancer of all Deeds and Incumbrances of Real Estates.
1688 London Gaz. No. 2380/4 The Real Estate of the said Bankrupt will be sold to the best Chapman.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 97. ⁋5 Their real Estate shall be immediately vested in the next Heir.
1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans IV. 265 The good gentleman at the Abbey, who has left you his real estate.
1793 S. C. Cox in W. P. Williams Rep. (ed. 5) III. 22 The court was of opinion that upon the construction of the will the real estate was converted into personalty for all the purposes of the will.
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 321 A devise of real estate to the heirs of a person living at the determination of the prior estates.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 2/3 The law might almost be forgiven for making no provision for dealing with real-estate-owning paupers.
1927 A. L. Beeley Bail Syst. in Chicago I. iii. 41 A common practice of the professional bondsman is to over-schedule real estate.
1975 B. Garfield Hopscotch xv. 147 The kingpin in town was a back-porch country lawyer who..sidelined in real estate.
2001 S. Horn Waiting for my Cats to die 179 Mark, an artist, died two years ago..and Alan works in real estate.
2. In extended use: space; extent, capacity; location, esp. considered in terms of relative value or benefit.
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1978 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 17 Apr. 68 The prime real estate on the instrument panel is already allocated and difficult to disturb without potential certification problems.
1983 WWD 7 Dec. 14 Stores are devoting more real estate to better merchandise and that will be beneficial to manufacturers in those categories in coming years.
1989 Motor Trend Oct. 130/1 Suddenly, the real estate previously available for front suspension hardware was at a real premium, making it necessary to find an alternate to the double A-arm system.
2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 16 Jan. xiii. 4/4 (in figure) ‘Ultimately, there's not a lot of real estate on an NBA uniform, it's just a tank top and shorts,’ says branding consultant Tom O'Grady.
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1840 Spirit of Times 25 Jan. 562/1 A negro, the holder of a ticket in the grand real estate lottery.., came pushing into a lottery office in great excitement.
1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 88 This experience entitled me to be regarded as a sort of real-estate broker by my friends.
1892 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 85 The packed real-estate offices; the real-estate agents themselves.
1926 A. G. Hinman & H. B. Dorau Real Estate Merchandising vii. 95 Every administrator of the policies of a real estate firm will have to make a decision for or against multiple listing.
1969 Sydney Morning Herald 24 May 30/1 (advt.) The Real Estate Institute of New South Wales..will commence the next evening course of lectures in Real Estate and Valuation Practice.
2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) i. 60 The largest group of immigrants consists of..early retirees in the age bracket 45–49, supporting themselves by real estate equity from their out-of-state homes that they sold.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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