(n.) Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
(n.) Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
(n.) A person of high rank.
(n.) A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.
(n.) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
(n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.
(n.) The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc.
(v. t.) To establish.
(v. t.) Tom settle as a fortune.
(v. t.) To endow with an estate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
(2) It did the job of triggering growth, but it also fueled real-estate speculation, similar to what was going on in the mid-2000s here.” Slowing economic growth may be another concern.
(3) You could also chat to local estate agents to get an idea of what kind of extension, if any, would appeal to buyers in your area.
(4) To mark World Aids Day, THT is opening a charity shop in Soho Estates’ Walkers Court development in central Soho.
(5) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
(6) On the point about whether the estate is “viable”: if the alternative is the land beneath it on the open market, for a private developer to pay bubble prices, then nothing is really viable.
(7) Last night, the trouble spread to the mainly Asian suburb of Manningham, an area of sprawling and deprived terraced housing estates.
(8) The prince's spokesman, asked about the effect of the judge's ruling, gave a different reason to the duchy for the estate not paying corporation tax.
(9) Britain's estate agents today report a surge in the number of properties for sale amid signs jittery vendors are keen to strike a deal before next month's general election.
(10) Trump and his wife, Melania, descended an escalator into the basement lobby of the Trump Tower on 16 June 2015, for an announcement many observers said would never come: the celebrity real estate developer, who had flirted with running for office in the past, would announce that he was launching his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
(11) Because the housing crisis goes far beyond us Focus E15 mums | Jasmin Stone Read more Annette May, 68, from Lambeth Annette May has watched with mounting dismay as the community fabric of the council estate where she has lived for 44 years steadily unravels.
(12) Working in tandem with Westminster city council, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, the crown estate has pedestrianised several side streets, widened pavements, and introduced a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus and new traffic islands at Piccadilly Circus, along with two-way traffic on Piccadilly, Pall Mall and St James's Street.
(13) The Brinks Mat gang, some with guns, surprised six security staff as they started the Saturday shift between 6.30am and 8.15am at the warehouse, on the Heathrow industrial estate at Hounslow.
(14) Ed Mead, a director of estate agency Douglas & Gordon, says the recent pace of price rises has been deterring some homeowners from selling up in case they miss out on more growth.
(15) When the couple looked over their own balcony on the 15th floor of 63 Petershill Drive in Glasgow's Red Road estate, they saw three bodies on the small square of grass below.
(16) This has lifted many estates in the £300-500,000 band out of inheritance tax altogether: at this point we are beginning to talk about substantial, indeed life-altering, sums of money.
(17) The housing developments being targeted reportedly include the Winstanley estate in Wandsworth, south London.
(18) But this is not to say that I do not have a working knowledge of true bedsitters - and yes, they do still exist, in spite of estate agents' profligate use of the term 'studio flat'.
(19) His study finds that the differences are a result of stereotyping, as opposed to other factors, and are particularly pronounced in areas where there are fewer black children – or fewer children from very poor estates.
(20) In this context, it is hard not to wonder whether a scheme on the scale and ambition of Packington, located as it is in a sea of valuable central London real estate, could ever be replicated.
Sequester
Definition:
(v. t.) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
(v. t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
(v. t.) To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
(v. t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
(v. i.) To withdraw; to retire.
(v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
(n.) Sequestration; separation.
(n.) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
(n.) Same as Sequestrum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both organisms have previously been found to be sequestered in the posterior lens capsule by histological and microbiological examination of excised capsular specimens.
(2) The original agricultural wastes had captured CO2 from the air through the photosynthesis process; biochar is a low-tech way of sequestering carbon, effectively for ever.
(3) The rate of release of an aqueous solution of pilocarpine hydrochloride sequestered in hydrogel-type materials can be reduced by plasma treatment of the polymer surface.
(4) Clearance into the mediastinum may be the major pathway for liquid sequestered in the loose, binding connective tissue.
(5) Since some genotoxic metals are diffused in the environment and are often sequestered as insoluble precipitates in water sediments and sludges, the introduction of NTA is likely to increase the risk of environmental pollution because of its ability to solubilize and make those metals reactive.
(6) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(7) MCTP-treated rats receiving control serum (CS) tended to sequester more 111In-labeled platelets than respective DMF controls, but this was not statistically significant.
(8) Although the chemical basis of these results is not known, they indicate that profilin can tightly sequester actin monomers and support the earlier suggestion that the affinity of profilin for actin may be under metabolic control.
(9) Membrane receptor binding of luteolytic hormones activates production of a second messenger (such as a product of PI turnover) that stimulates release of sequestered, intracellular Ca2+ by a mechanism linked to inhibition of microsomal Ca2+-ATPase activity.
(10) The self-antigen may be poorly presented by APC or sequestered in a particular body compartment; alternatively, these T cells may have low affinity receptors needing high levels of antigen.
(11) We found that the 3' splice site of the C4-M1 intron is sequestered in a stem-loop structure, which inhibits the splicing reaction in vitro.
(12) This paper also discusses the effects on tissue concentrations and half-lives of trapping HCB in the intestines by sequestering a large portion of it there.
(13) However, in less than 15 sec, LTB4-treated PMN lose the ability to respond further to LTB4; decrease the affinity and number of high affinity receptors available for binding LTB4; sequester LTB4 in plasmalemma-associated sites that are inaccessible to a releasing buffer regimen; and begin internalizing LTB4.
(14) In the preceding paper we showed that de novo initiation at the L gene is prevented by a hairpin structure that sequesters the ribosomal binding site.
(15) The sequester is about as illogical process as you could possibly conceive."
(16) Light and electron microscopy revealed bacteria sequestered within the capsular bag.
(17) Stimulating the cells with noradrenaline (NA) also induced release of sequestered Ca2+ and an influx of extracellular Ca2+.
(18) Further, they demonstrate that the copper bound to metallothionein is not permanently sequestered, but can be incorporated into other copper proteins.
(19) By contrast, when trout were injected with cadmium intraperitoneally, most of the metal accumulated in the liver where it was sequestered by the two isoforms of metallothionein.
(20) There is as yet no easy explanation for regression in case of prolapsed, perhaps even sequestered, disc tissue.