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  2. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  3. Estate - Wikipedia

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    Housing estate, a group of houses built as a single development. Industrial estate (office park) and trading estate; property planned and sub-let for industrial and commercial use. Real estate or real property. Estate agent or real estate agent; Literary estate, the intellectual property of a deceased author, or the executor thereof

  4. Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United ...

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    an automobile with extended rear cargo area (UK: estate (car)) steam shovel a large mechanical excavator (UK: digger or JCB (genericized trademark)) steno (short for "stenographer") (UK: shorthand typist) stickshift, stick (car with) manual transmission, as opposed to an automatic (UK and US: gear stick or gear lever for the stick; manual for ...

  5. Probate - Wikipedia

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    In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death.

  6. Estate (law) - Wikipedia

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    An estate can be an estate for years, an estate at will, a life estate (extinguishing at the death of the holder), an estate pur autre vie (a life interest for the life of another person) or a fee tail estate (to the heirs of one's body) or some more limited kind of heir (e.g. to heirs male of one's body).

  7. Estate planning - Wikipedia

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    Estate planning is the process of anticipating and arranging for the management and disposal of a person's estate during the person's life in preparation for future incapacity or death. The planning includes the bequest of assets to heirs, loved ones, and/or charity, and may include minimizing gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes.

  8. Converse (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]

  9. Estate (land) - Wikipedia

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    Wentworth Woodhouse is a large rural estate, extending to 15,000 acres including the country house. The "estate" formed an economic system where the profits from its produce and rents (of housing or agricultural land) sustained the main household, formerly known as the manor house.