estate for life

1. 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.

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.