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noun

estate

CEFR B2

everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities

In a sentence

Six example sentences with estate, each labelled with its topic.

  • The will divides the entire estate among four cousins after every outstanding debt has been settled by the executor.

    Law

  • A good adviser lists every account, property, and loan so the estate can be valued in a single afternoon.

    Finance

  • When the composer died his estate amounted to a rented piano, unpaid bills, and forty crates of manuscript.

    History

  • The singer's estate approved the release of six unfinished songs, remixed from tapes found in a relative's basement.

    Music

  • The painter's estate controls every reproduction, so a poster of his work needs its written permission first.

    Art

  • The novelist's estate refused to let anyone quote her letters, so the biography paraphrases every line.

    Literature

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