vast estate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvastandestate
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vast
adjective
uk/vɑːst/us/væst/
extremely ...
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estate
noun
uk/ɪˈsteɪt/us/ɪˈsteɪt/
a large area of land in the country that is owned by a family or an organization and is often used for growing crops or ...
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(Definition ofvastandestatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As a freeborn child with inheritance rights in her father'svastestate, she was adorned much more elaborately than older but unfree members of her father's family.
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There was something to be said at that time for the landlord who owned avastestateand great mineral possessions.
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However, the computer has taken over thisvastestate.
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The fact is that this is avastestateto manage.
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It is really avastestate.
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Therefore, if the lawful activity was on a person's piece of land, even if it was avastestate, the whole of the land would be covered.
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He also learns how to manage accounts and avastestate.
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Kane spends his last years building hisvastestateand lives alone, interacting only with his staff.
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Nero rewarded her with avastestateand even sent pupils to her.
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As we cannot set up neighbourhood watch schemes on the vast estates, we shall have to try another method.
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There are these rises in pay, and wherever one went one saw vast estates of houses going up.
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Working-class families are housed in vast estates outside the city areas.
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So the idea that there are vast estates of property throughout the country that are not being properly managed is absurd.
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In the privately-rented sector there are vast estates, some of which have been the subject of property speculators over the years.
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As not everyone would want to buy, the vast estates would lose their uniformity and a true mix would result.
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I am not talking of the owners of vast estates making enormous and lucrative profits.
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My grandfather did not leave me vast estates or money; he left me an industry whose reserves had been worked prudently and had been conserved for future generations.
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Therefore, one might well put into one category the small properties and the transactions connected with them, and into quite a different category the vast estates controlled by certain agencies.
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Carron owned coal mines, ships and vast estates.
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Those wildernesses will be assisted in their preservation by the clause, which will reduce the rate of tax which will fall due when those vast estates change hands between generations.
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