estate: translation
noun
1 land owned by a person/family/organization
ADJECTIVE
▪ big, great, huge, large, substantial, vast
▪ sprawling
▪ the family mansion and sprawling country estate
▪ small
▪ country, rural
▪ the family's country estate
▪ grand, palatial
▪ He owned a palatial estate in California.
▪ royal
▪ family
▪ the family estate at Kostroma
▪ landed (esp.BrE)
▪ Gilbert was heir to an extensive landed estate.
▪ sugar, wine
▪ Bordeaux's most famous wine estate
▪ freehold, leasehold (both BrE, law)
VERB + ESTATE
▪ have, own
▪ The family owns a large estate in the north.
▪ buy
▪ Queen Victoria bought the estate in 1848.
▪ manage, run
ESTATE + NOUN
▪ manager, owner, worker (BrE)
▪ management
▪ agency, agent (both BrE) (real estate agency, real estate agent in AmE)
PREPOSITION
▪ on an/the estate
▪ the number of people living on the estate
▪ estate of
▪ an estate of 20 000 acres
PHRASES
▪ an heir to an estate
▪ The young prince is the heir to a vast estate in the west of the country.
2 (BrE) land with a lot of buildings of the same type
ADJECTIVE
▪ large, massive
▪ small
▪ deprived, run-down
▪ youngsters living on deprived housing estates
▪ council, housing
▪ private
▪ industrial, trading
▪ The factory is on a large industrial estate on the outskirts of town.
VERB + ESTATE
▪ build
PREPOSITION
▪ on an/the estate
▪ She lives on a council estate in Leeds.
3 (law) property that sb leaves when they die
ADJECTIVE
▪ personal
▪ taxable
▪ assets from your taxable estate
VERB + ESTATE
▪ bequeath (formal), leave
▪ The bulk of his estate was bequeathed to his son Jacob.
▪ She left her whole estate to her niece.
▪ inherit
▪ She inherited her father's estate.
▪ own
▪ His personal estate is worth $30 million.
▪ settle
▪ It took seven years to settle the estate.
ESTATE + VERB
▪ be valued at sth, be worth sth
ESTATE + NOUN
▪ tax (AmE)
▪ to transfer estate taxes to the next generation
▪ sale