estate agent

noun

British
: a real estate broker or manager

Examples of estate agent in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The riverside market town, Totnes, has become a byword for an outdoorsy, artistic community—catnip to the tourists who bunch around the estate agent windows. Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024 Max Schreck plays Count Orlok, the Dracula analog who preys upon Hutter, a visiting estate agent. Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2023 The estate agent took the 17-year-old teen seller and his father to court seeking a refund, but his case was recently thrown out, the BBC reported this week. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Jan. 2024 According to research by estate agent Hamptons, the average sale price of homes in 41% of all London’s 283 postal codes was £1 million or more as of November 2022. Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for estate agent 

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Word History

First Known Use

1856, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of estate agent was in 1856

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“Estate agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/estate%20agent. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.

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