real estate

• real-estate, realestate

Estate that is real, in the legal sense of "relating to immovable tangible property". This sense of the word ultimately goes back to Latin, where reālis could be used similarly.

• enPR: /rēl' əstātʹ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːl əˌsteɪt/

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real estate (uncountable)

1. Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground on which they are built.

   They failed to find any investors for the construction of new real estate on the north side.

   • 1982, J. A. Kraulis, Ontario‎^[1], page 6:

     The "Golden Horseshoe", the commercial and industrial end of Lake Ontario, is the most crowded real estate in Canada.

   • 1988, “(Nothing But) Flowers”, in Naked, performed by Talking Heads:

     This used to be real estate / Now it's only fields and trees / Where? Where is the town? / Now it's nothing but flowers

2. (informal) Space used for a particular purpose.
   • 2007, Preston Gralla, Big Book of Windows Hacks:

     Virtual desktops allow you to stretch your screen real estate well beyond its normal size.

• immovable property
• property (British)
• realty
• real property

• chattels
• personalty

• realtor

• “real estate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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