📚 Estate, noun. 🔉 /ɪˈsteɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: All the money and property owned by a particular person, especially at death. ❗️ Examples: 1. In his will, he divided his estate between his wife and daughter. 2. He is alleged to have taken money from the estates of ten deceased people, including a husband and wife over a ten-year period. 3. The cause of action is deemed to have subsisted before the death, allowing the claimant to sue the estate. 4. If he had done so, on his death his estate would have been entitled to a cash sum to be applied for the purchase of an annuity for his dependants. 5. The will of Dennis Reece provided that Anna receive all of his estate on his death. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic