What is an “estate,” as in a “housing estate” or “council estate”?
<p>Also, how does this sense of the word differ from those used in other jurisdictions, and how are any of the senses of the term derived from one another if at all?</p>

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<p>What is an “estate,” as in a “housing estate” or “council estate”?</p>
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<p>See <a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/88956" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>Oxford English Dictionary</em>: &quot;housing, <em>n.1</em>&quot;</a>:</p>
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<p><strong>housing estate</strong> <em>n. British</em> a residential area in which the houses, streets, etc., have all been planned and built at the same time.</p>
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<p>And see <a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/42589" rel="nofollow noreferrer">&quot;council, <em>n.</em></a>:</p>
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<p><strong>council estate</strong>, <em>n.</em> (also <strong>council housing estate</strong>) a group of houses erected by a council</p>
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