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Definition: Freehold |
FreeholdNoun1. An estate held in fee simple or for life. 2. Tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "freehold" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Business | The fundamental right to the ownership of land and any buildings thereon. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | The occupying without actual ownership of a piece of land, a dwelling or an office for life, sometimes with the right to pass it on to one's heirs. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Freehold."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Freedom | Free land, freehold; allodium; frankalmoigne, mortmain. |
Exempt; freed; freeborn; autonomous, freehold, allodial; gratis; eleutherian. | |
Property | Absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold; fee tail, fee simple; estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail; estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Freehold |
| English words defined with "freehold": Abator, Allodial, Allodium ♦ Deforce, Disseize, Disseizin, Disseizor ♦ Enfeoff, Enfranchisement of copyhold ♦ freeholder ♦ Personal estate ♦ real estate ♦ Udal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "freehold": forbedrings-og klargøringsudgifter vedrørende grunde og bygninger ♦ Udal Tenure, undeveloped land. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "freehold": Disseizor. (references) |
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 | Many migrant potato pickers board at houses in town. Freehold, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Unloading bags of potatoes at railroad yard. Freehold, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Indonesia | Foreign entities have no freehold rights to land ownership in Indonesia. (references) |
Tanzania | However, access to land for foreign investors will continue to be difficult to obtain, costly, and with few exceptions, will be on the basis of 33, 66 or 99 years leasehold rather than freehold. (references) | |
Singapore | Under the Residential Property Act, foreigners may purchase freehold condominiums, but are not permitted to own landed homes (free standing houses) and apartments in buildings of fewer than six stories, even if they are leasehold properties, unless approval is first obtained from the Minister of Law. (references) | |
Minorities | Fiji | Ethnic Fijians communally hold over 80 percent of land, the government holds another 8 percent, and the remaining land is freehold. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | A government-run health care center had operated on the site since 1973. The Church claims that it has a freehold title to the land, while the Government claims that the land is leased. (references) |
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| "Freehold" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Freehold" is used about 306 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 306 | 16,534 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Freehold, NJ (borough, FIPS 25200) 2. Freehold, NY |
Expressions using "freehold": East Freehold ♦ To abate into a freehold ♦ West Freehold. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "freehold"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | التملك الحر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 终身保有的不动产. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | jord hvortil der haves odelsret (allodial estate, freehold estate), allodialgods (allodial estate, freehold estate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | eigen grond. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | täysi omistusoikeus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | propriété foncière libre, pleine propriété. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | freier Grundbesitz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ελεύθερο κτήμα, δικαίωμα κτήσης ή κατοχής ακίνητης περιουσίας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | זכות חכיר". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szabad tulajdon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bene allodiale (allodial estate, freehold estate), allodio (allodium, alodium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | seyr-helloo, seyr-ghowaltyssagh, seyr-ghowaltys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eeholdfray completo (absolute, all around, all out, all round, arrant, bijou, clean, complete, completed, done, downsize, dyed-in-the, egress, entire, exhibit, full, fullbodied, outright, plenary, Plumb, precious, round, run down, sheer, sweeping, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, thru, total, unabridged, unalloyed, unmitigated, utter, whole). (various references) фригольд. (various references) propiedad vitalicia. (various references) med full besittningsrätt. (various references) อสังหาริมทรัพย์ที่ผู้ครอบครองมีสิทธิที่จะทำอย่างไรก็ไ"้กับอสังหาริมทรัพย์นั้น, การครอบครองอสังหาริมทรัพย์แบบผู้ครอบครองมีสิทธิสมบูร"์. (various references) mülkiyet hakkı, mülk (asset, condo, demesne, domain, estate, hereditament, landed property, possession, possessions, premises, property, tenement). (various references) фригольд. (various references) thái ấp được to n quyền sử dụng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "freehold": freeholder, freeholders, freeholds. (additional references) | |
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"Freehold" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: feedhold, framehold, Franholz, freehole, free'old, frehold, Treholt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "freehold" (pronounced frē"hō'ld) |
| 4 | -h ō' l d | buttonholed, chokehold, foothold, handhold, household, leasehold, pigeonholed, potholed, stranglehold, stronghold, toehold. |
| 3 | -ō' l d | bankrolled, billfold, blindfold, centerfold, eightfold, fivefold, fourfold, Mangold, manifold, marigold, ninefold, sevenfold, sixfold, tenfold, threefold, threshold. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-h-l-o-r" | |
-2 letters: folder, hereof, holder, refold, rolfed. | |
-3 letters: defer, dhole, elder, erode, fleer, freed, heder, holed, horde, older, refed, refel. | |
-4 letters: deer, dele, delf, dere, doer, dole, dore, dree, feed, feel, feod, fere, fled, flee, floe, fold, ford, fore, free, froe, heed, heel, held, helo, herd, here, herl, hero, hoed, hoer, hold, hole, leer, lehr. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-h-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: freeholds, threefold. | |
+2 letters: freeholder. | |
+3 letters: freeholders. | |
+4 letters: forehandedly, formaldehyde, officeholder. | |
+5 letters: foresightedly, formaldehydes, officeholders, softheartedly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 72 65 65 68 6F 6C 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. . . .... --- .-.. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r e e h o l d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 0065 0065 0068 006F 006C 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4084717174817870 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, 阿拉伯 , arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, Arabish, арабский, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, Sheenish, Sheenagh, chinês, китайский, китаец, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, 丹麦语, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danese, Danvargish, Danvargagh, dinamarquês, датский, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, "ול "י, holland, olandese, Ollanish, Germaanish, holandês, голландский, holandés, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã" |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finlandese, Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, финский, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, французский, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, немецкий, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, 希腊语, 希臘語 , græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, греческий, грек, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , joods, Hebreeuws, juutalainen, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, Ewagh, Ewnish, Ew, hebreu, hebraico, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, ชาวฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), าษาฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей, người Hê-brơ |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , ungarer, Hongaarse, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, португальский, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, russer, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, испанский, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | اللغة السويدية, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰 , 泰語 , 泰国, thailænder, Thais, Thai, thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, турецкий, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, 乌克兰, Oekraïens, ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець, người U-kren tiếng U-kren |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | 越南語 , 越南语, 越南 , vietnameser, vietnamilainen, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, английский, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Cities 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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