real estate

[ ree-uh l, reel ]

/ ˈri əl, ril /

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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.

Nearby words

reaginic antibody, real, real ale, real axis, real cost, real estate, real income, real life, real line, real mccoy, the, real number

Origin of real estate

First recorded in 1640–45

Related forms

re·al-es·tate, adjective

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Examples from the Web for real estate

Last week, property owners were beaten by security guards as they confronted a real-estate developer who defrauded them.
China’s Internet Is Freer Than You Think|Brendon Hong|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Real-estate expert Julian Hitchcock told Grub Street he expects to see more chain restaurants pop up in New York.
High Rents Are Killing the Restaurant Capital|Will Doig|October 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The park was a $14 million project built by average-sized Chinese entrepreneur and real-estate businessman Chen Mingjing in 2009.
China Has a Dwarf Amusement Park|Nina Strochlic|June 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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 Sale|Caitlin Dickson|March 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Quinn has all the real-estate people with her, and they hate De Blasio.
New York City: DeBlasio Running Away?|Michael Tomasky|August 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He had built a more stately mansion of native cottonwood lumber—his home, law and real-estate office.
Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences|Nebraska Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
To his surprise, he found there also Oldham, the real-estate promoter from Los Angeles.
The Rules of the Game|Stewart Edward White
Real-estate owners own as high in the air and as deep in the earth as they wish to go.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7|Elbert Hubbard
That's all right, but what I want to know is: who's the real-estate shark that bought that coal for his apartment-houses?
Babbitt|Sinclair Lewis
William Shakespeare, whose works are extensively read, is real-estate in London.
From Sea to Sea|Rudyard Kipling

British Dictionary definitions for real estate

real estate

noun

another term for real property

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