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lifeholds

lifeholds is the plural of lifehold.

Meaning of lifehold

Noun

lifehold (countable and uncountable, plural lifeholds)

  1. Land held by a life estate.
    • He was quite angry with circumstances for so heedlessly inflicting on Giles a second trouble when the needful one inflicted by himself was all that the proper order of events demanded. "I told Giles's father when he came into those houses not to spend too much money on lifehold property held...1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Questions about lifeholds

What is lifeholds the plural of?
Lifeholds is the plural of lifehold.

Words near lifeholds in the dictionary

  1. lifehacking
  2. lifehacks
  3. lifehold
  4. lifeholder
  5. lifeholders
  6. lifeholds
  7. lifejacket
  8. lifejacketed
  9. lifejackets
  10. lifeless
  11. lifelessly

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