Estate

Estate may refer to:

  • Estate (law), a term in common law for a person's property, entitlements and obligations.
  • Estates of the realm, a broad social category in the histories of certain countries.
  • Estate (land), the grounds and tenancies (such as farms, housing, woodland, parkland) associated with a very large property.
    • Housing estate, a group of houses built as a single development.
    • Industrial estate, and trading estate, property planned and sublet for industrial and commercial use.
  • Estate, a brand of major appliances, first from RCA, afterwards from Whirlpool Corporation.
  • Estate car, passenger car with a full-size back cargo compartment, a station wagon.
  • Estate (song), a 1960 Italian song and jazz standard.
  • Estate (album), a jazz piano album by Michel Petrucciani.
  • Estate, Information Technology term for a set of computers and other technology infrastructure, generally the total set owned by a corporation, as in "Estate Management." See ITIL and other standards.

Famous quotes containing the word estate:

    “Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content,
    The quiet mind is richer than a crown;
    Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent,
    The poor estate scorns Fortune’s angry frown.
    Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss,
    Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.”
    —Robert Greene (1558?–1592)

    “I ‘gin to be aweary of the sun,
    And wish th’ estate o’ the world were now undone.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.”
    —Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)