What does estate for life mean?

estate for life means "(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it".

What is another word for estate for life?

Close synonyms include life estate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is estate for life a common word?

estate for life is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Estate for life — meaning and 1 synonym

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it
Synonymslife estate
Broaderestate
Narrowerdower
law

Questions about estate for life

What does estate for life mean?: estate for life means "(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it".
What is another word for estate for life?: Close synonyms include life estate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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