English Dictionary

CONVEYANCING

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

 Dictionary entry overview: What does conveyancing mean? 

CONVEYANCING (noun)
  The noun CONVEYANCING has 1 sense:

1. act of transferring property title from one person to anotherplay

  Familiarity information: CONVEYANCING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CONVEYANCING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Act of transferring property title from one person to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conveyance; conveyance of title; conveyancing; conveying

Hypernyms ("conveyancing" is a kind of...):

transfer; transference (transferring ownership)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conveyancing"):

delivery; legal transfer; livery (the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another)


 Context examples 


They have only differed on some point of science, he thought; and being a man of no scientific passions (except in the matter of conveyancing), he even added: It is nothing worse than that!

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Chance favors the prepared mind." (English proverb)

"You can't find stupidity in the forest." (Bulgarian proverb)

"Do good and throw it in sea." (Arabic proverb)

"Forbidden fruit tastes best." (Czech proverb)



ALSO IN ENGLISH DICTIONARY:


© 2000-2023 AudioEnglish.org | AudioEnglish® is a Registered Trademark | Terms of use and privacy policy
Contact