| housing start | the act of starting to construct a house |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was created in |
| real-estate business | the business of selling real estate |
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 |
building complex
complex | a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures |
caparison
trapping housing | stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse |
| distributor housing | the housing that supports the distributor cam |
housing
lodging
living accommodations | structures collectively in which people are housed |
| housing | a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component |
lamp house
lamphouse
lamp housing | housing that holds a lamp (as in a movie projector) |
| tract housing | housing consisting of similar houses constructed together on a tract of land |
| superiority complex | an exaggerated estimate of your own value and importance |
complex instruction set computing
complex instruction set computer
CISC | (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip |
structure
anatomical structure
complex body part
bodily structure
body structure | a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing, he has good bone structure |
Golgi body
Golgi apparatus
Golgi complex
dictyosome | a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) |
complex
composite | a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts, the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town |
| complex sentence | a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause |
| complex | (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior |
Oedipus complex
Oedipal complex | a complex of males, desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father, said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved |
| Electra complex | a complex of females, sexual attraction to the father |
| inferiority complex | a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated |
| military-industrial complex | a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex--Dwight David Eisenhower |
| histocompatibility complex | a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response |
construction industry
housing industry | an industry that builds housing |
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 |
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Housing and Urban Development
HUD | the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal, created in |
| Estates General | assembly of the estates of all France, last meeting in |
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 |
Federal Housing Administration
FHA | the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages |
| housing development | a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management, they live in the new housing development |
| housing estate | a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time |
housing project
public housing | a housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families |
residential district
residential area
community | a district where people live, occupied primarily by private residences |
retirement community
retirement complex | a planned community for residents who have retired from an active working life |
| housing commissioner | a commissioner in charge of public housing |
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 |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was Robert C. Weaver who was appointed by Johnson |
Magnoliidae
subclass Magnoliidae
ranalian complex | a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants, contains families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae, sometimes classified as a superorder |
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 |
inheritance tax
estate tax
death tax
death duty | a tax on the estate of the deceased person |