| housing start | the act of starting to construct a house |
| development | act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining, he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency, they funded research and development |
| product development | improving an existing product or developing new kinds of products |
| 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 |
exploitation
development | the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful, the development of Alaskan resources, the exploitation of copper deposits |
| land development | making an area of land more useful |
water development
water project
water program | making an area of water more useful |
| 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 |
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) |
| ribbon development | building complex in a continuous row along a road |
| tract housing | housing consisting of similar houses constructed together on a tract of land |
| development | (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated |
| development | a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation, recent developments in Iraq, what a revolting development! |
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 |
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 |
| Social Development Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with social development |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
World Bank
IBRD | a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments |
International Development Association
IDA | an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank |
Advanced Research and Development Activity
ARDA | an agency of the Intelligence Community that conducts advanced research and development related to information technology |
Federal Housing Administration
FHA | the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages |
| development | a district that has been developed to serve some purpose, such land is practical for small park developments |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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 |
real estate loan
mortgage loan | a loan on real estate that is usually secured by a mortgage |
development
developing | processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible, the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours |
| development evolution | a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage), the development of his ideas took many years, the evolution of Greek civilization, the slow development of her skill as a writer |
growth
growing
maturation
development ontogeny
ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically, a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level, he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children |