royal tennis
real tennis
court tennis | an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court |
| real-estate business | the business of selling real estate |
| loan approval | formal authorization to get a loan (usually from a bank) |
beach wagon
station wagon
wagon estate car
beach waggon
station waggon
waggon | a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat |
| loan office | an office where loans are negotiated and repaid |
pawnbroker's shop
pawnshop
loan office | a shop where loans are made with personal property as security |
| real storage | the main memory in a virtual memory system |
real McCoy
real thing
real stuff | informal usage attributing authenticity |
real world
real life | the practical world as opposed to the academic world, a good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world |
loanblend
loan-blend
hybrid | a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) |
loanword
loan | a word borrowed from another language, e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English |
calque
calque formation
loan translation | an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language, `superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch' |
| loan application | an application to borrow money |
| real presence | (Christianity) the Christian doctrine that the body of Christ is actually present in the Eucharist |
| loan collection | a number of pictures loaned by their owners for exhibition |
Real IRA
Real Irish Republican Army
RIRA
Dissident Irish Republican Army | a radical terrorist group that broke away in when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire, has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement |
Real Estate Investment Trust
REIT | an investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate assets, shares can be bought and sold in the stock market |
estate of the realm
estate
the three estates | a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights |
first estate
Lords Spiritual | the clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain |
second estate
Lords Temporal | the nobility in France and the peerage in Britain |
third estate
Commons | the common people |
| fourth estate | the press, including journalists, newspaper writers, photographers |
| real matrix | a matrix whose elements are all real numbers |
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
Freddie Mac
FHLMC | a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages |
consumer finance company
small loan company | a finance company that makes loans to people who have trouble getting a bank loan |
industrial bank
industrial loan company | a finance company that makes small loans to industrial workers |
savings and loan
savings and loan association | a thrift institution that is required by law to make a certain percentage of its loans as home mortgages |
| Home Loan Bank | one of regional banks that monitor and make short-term credit advances to thrift institutions in their region |
| Federal Home Loan Bank System | the central credit system for thrift institutions |
| housing estate | a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time |
residential district
residential area
community | a district where people live, occupied primarily by private residences |
real estate broker
real estate agent
estate agent
land agent house agent | a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land, in England they call a real estate agent a land agent |
usurer
loan shark
moneylender
shylock | someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest |
personal property
personal estate
personalty
private property | movable property (as distinguished from real estate) |
real property
real estate
realty
immovable | property consisting of houses and land |
estate land
landed estate
acres
demesne | extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use, the family owned a large estate on Long Island |
| estate | everything you own, all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities |
| gross estate | the total valuation of the estate's assets at the time of the person's death |
| net estate | the estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate, the estate then left to be distributed (and subject to federal and state inheritance taxes) |
life estate
estate for life | (law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it |
real gross national product
real GNP | a version of the GNP that has been adjusted for the effects of inflation |
inheritance tax
estate tax
death tax
death duty | a tax on the estate of the deceased person |
| bank loan | a loan made by a bank, to be repaid with interest on or before a fixed date |
business loan
commercial loan | a bank loan granted for the use of a business |
| interbank loan | a loan from one bank to another |
home loan
home equity credit
home equity loan
equity credit line | a loan secured by equity value in the borrower's home |
installment credit
installment loan | a loan repaid with interest in equal periodic payments |
| real | an old small silver Spanish coin |
| loan | the temporary provision of money (usually at interest) |
call loan
demand loan | a loan that is repayable on demand |