gross estate

1. 1.

   the total valuation of the estate's assets at the time of the person's death

   Broaderestate

Questions about gross estate

What does gross estate mean?

gross estate means "the total valuation of the estate's assets at the time of the person's death".

Is gross estate a common word?

gross estate 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.