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    ESTATE FOR LIFE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    (law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding itplay

    Synonyms:

    estate for life; life estate

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

    Hypernyms ("estate for life" is a kind of...):

    estate (everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities)

    Domain category:

    jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estate for life"):

    dower (a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband)

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