estate // noun

INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, REAL ESTATE, TRADING ESTATE

1 [C] (BrE)

an area of land with a lot of houses, office buildings or factories of the same type on it:

There are several office buildings empty on the estate.

a housing estate

2 (Law ) [C,U]

all the money and property that a person owns, especially everything that is left when they die:

Her estate was left to her daughter.

a bankrupt estate

He left estate valued at a million dollars.

3 [C, usually sing., U] (BrE)

a group of small businesses, especially places where people go to drink alcohol (pubs), that are owned and controlled by a single organization:

The company plans to sell its estate of 108 coffee bars.

a pub estate

• tax haven
• tax holiday
• tax incentive
• tax invoice
• tax liability
• tax lien
• tax loss
• taxman
• tax obligation
• taxpayer
• tax provision
• tax rate
• tax relief
• tax return
• tax sale
• tax schedule
• tax shelter
• tax subsidy
• tax take
• tax threshold
• tax year
• t.b.
• T.B.A
• T-bill
• T-bond