real estate
[ree-uh l, reel]
- property, especially in land: three acres of real estate.
- real property.
- 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
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Examples from the Web for real estate
Contemporary Examples
Last week, property owners were beaten by security guards as they confronted a real-estate developer who defrauded them.
Real-estate expert Julian Hitchcock told Grub Street he expects to see more chain restaurants pop up in New York.
The park was a $14 million project built by average-sized Chinese entrepreneur and real-estate businessman Chen Mingjing in 2009.
At the time, the real-estate agent tasked with selling the now-infamous house was not optimistic.
JonBenet Ramsey's Colorado Home And Other Infamous Murder Houses For SaleCaitlin Dickson
March 19, 2014
Quinn has all the real-estate people with her, and they hate De Blasio.
Historical Examples
Portland recorded the weight in a pocket-book, for he was a real-estate man.
American NotesRudyard Kipling
Ay, and what without them would be the state of our real-estate interests?
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
George, who knew Chicago real-estate if any one did, said they might as well get what they could.
GigoloEdna Ferber
On the envelope was the printed address of a real-estate broker in Brooklyn.
The Telegraph BoyHoratio Alger, Jr.
I lived there in 1857—an extraordinary year there in real-estate matters.
Life On The Mississippi, CompleteMark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
real estate
- another term for real property
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