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reit

/ɹiːt/US/riːt/

reit noun: sedge; seaweed.

Noun (1)

reit (countable and uncountable, plural reits)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) sedge; seaweed
    • The Squillae[…]live in marine[…]places: their meat is oisters, and reites.1661, Robert Lovell, ΠΑΝΖΩΟΡΥΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANZŌORYKTOLOGIA]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, both Ancient and Modern...

Noun (2) capitalized: REIT

REIT (plural REITs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of real estate investment trust, an investment device where the holding company uses the funds invested to hold real estate.
    • Some have used sale-leasebacks to real-estate investment trusts (REITs). In a sale-leaseback, a hospital sells its facilities, and then leases back those same facilities from the REIT.2018 January 9, Brian Alexander, “America's Rural Hospitals Are Dangerously Fragile”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2019

Forms of reit

pluralreits
pluralREITs

Words that rhyme with reit

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Questions about reit

What does reit mean?
Reit means sedge; seaweed.
What part of speech is reit?
Reit is a noun.
How do you pronounce reit?
Reit is pronounced /ɹiːt/.
What is the plural of reit?
The plural of reit is reits.

Words near reit in the dictionary

  1. reists
  2. Reisui
  3. Reiswig
  4. Reiswigs
  5. Reisz
  6. reit
  7. Reitan
  8. Reitano
  9. Reitanos
  10. Reitans
  11. reitbok

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