estate

Related to estate: estate tax, Estate planning, Probate estate

the Fourth Estate

The people and organizations that report the news, or news journalism as a whole, regarded as having palpable but unofficial political influence. One must never forget the sway held by members of the Fourth Estate—if we want public support, then we need the press on our side.
See also: estate, fourth

wheel estate

informal Any portable living quarters, such as a mobile home, RV, camper van, etc. A pun on the phrase "real estate." Tom and I always said that we would move into our wheel estate when we retired, so we could spend our twilight years traveling around the country. A growing number of people are shunning traditional properties, instead opting for "wheel estate" that they can relocate as they see fit.
See also: estate, wheel
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

the fourth estate

the press; the profession of journalism.
The three traditional Estates of the Realm (the Crown, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons) are now viewed as having been joined by the press, which is regarded as having equal power. As early as 1843 Lord Macaulay stated: ‘The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm’.
See also: estate, fourth
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

wheel estate

n. a mobile home or RV. His wheel estate includes two cars, a motor home, and a couple of bicycles.
See also: estate, wheel
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • the Fourth Estate
  • get around
  • get round
  • get round (someone)
  • get round (something)
  • word gets around
  • more at 11
  • be good news
  • break a story
  • break the/a story
References in classic literature
"You allude, perhaps, to the entail of this estate."
There is no knowing how estates will go when once they come to be entailed."
Pride and Prejudice
But the glittering shoe of a great estate, and of fine things, which the deceived creature that was now my deceiver represented every hour to my imagination, hurried me away, and gave me no time to think of London, or of anything there, much less of the obligation I had to a person of infinitely more real merit than what was now before me.
'Madam,' says he, very respectfully, 'I suppose the greatest part of your estate, which my sister tells me is most of it in money in the Bank of England, lies secure enough, but in case it required transferring, or any way altering its property, it might be necessary to go up to London and settle those things before we went over.'
No, he said, I had not told him so, but his sister had said the greatest part of my estate lay there.
'I asked you last night,' said I, speaking to him, 'if ever I made any boast to you of my estate, or ever told you I had any estate in the Bank of England or anywhere else, and you owned I had not, as is most true; and I desire you will tell me here, before your sister, if ever I gave you any reason from me to think so, or that ever we had any discourse about it'; and he owned again I had not, but said I had appeared always as a woman of fortune, and he depended on it that I was so, and hoped he was not deceived.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
It is true that Marmaduke, by thus purchasing estates that had been wrested by violence from others, rendered himself obnoxious to the censures of that Sect which, at the same time that it discards its children from a full participation in the family union, seems ever unwilling to abandon them entirely to the world.
When the district in which his estates lay had become sufficiently populous to be set off as a county, Mr.
Pioneers
It is certain, so many overthrown estates, so many votes for troubles.
The Essays
If the law gave me the best estate in the country, I should never trouble myself much who had the right."
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
Philip Fairlie died leaving an only daughter, the Laura of this story, and the estate, in consequence, went, in course of law, to the second brother, Frederick, a single man.
If she died single, or died childless, the estate would revert to her cousin, Magdalen, the daughter of Mr.
The personal estate, or, in other words, the money to which Miss Fairlie would become entitled on reaching the age of twenty-one years, is the next point to consider.
The knowledge of Sir Percival's affairs which I had necessarily gained when the provisions of the deed on HIS side were submitted in due course to my examination, had but too plainly informed me that the debts on his estate were enormous, and that his income, though nominally a large one, was virtually, for a man in his position, next to nothing.
The Woman in White
A week later, Pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the Masons, and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his estates. His new brethren gave him letters to the Kiev and Odessa Masons and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity.
War and Peace