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real estate [ ree -uh l, reel ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈri əl, ril / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun
property, especially in land: three acres of real estate.
available space or capacity: A bigger screen will give you extra real estate.
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Origin of real estate First recorded in 1640–45
OTHER WORDS FROM real estate re·al-es·tate, adjective
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How to use real estate in a sentence The young Earth lacked continents, but Hawaii-like islands likely provided more than enough real estate for life to take hold, according to Nicholas Hud, a biochemist also at Georgia Tech but who was not involved in the recent research.
Drinking rum and Cokes with friends, running, and stalking online real estate sites.
Just remember that toaster ovens will take up more real estate in your kitchen than a slotted toaster does.
“Vizio was the first mover in realizing they owned the real estate , and Samsung and the others caught on pretty quickly,” said a second streaming executive.
The newsrooms found that timber companies, increasingly dominated by Wall Street real estate trusts and investment funds, have benefited from tax cuts that cost counties at least $3 billion over the past three decades.
But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
We haven't had any real fan reaction yet, but our collective fingers are crossed.
They say it's frightening how the real CIA is perceived to be as clueless as Archer Co.
But if you listen to our leaders, they weren't the real targets here.
“This is a federal mandate that is causing some real problems for schools across the country,” Kline told a CBS affiliate in July.
But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.
It was not until later days that Malcolm knew the real nature of the scene through which he rode.
It was in the college stage that most of us made out our religion and made it real for ourselves.
The real experience has a magnetism of its own and will win above mere technicality whenever it has the opportunity.
He is dead; but his three sons have the estate yet, and I think they would keep their father's promise to the Indians.
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