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reit1
plural reits
- UKcountabledialectalobsoleteuncountablesedge; 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, Galenicall and Chymicall, …, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall, for Jos[eph] Godwin, →OCLC
REIT2
plural REITs
- abbreviationacronymbusinessAcronym 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
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nounan investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate assets; shares can be bought and sold in the stock market
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reit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reit
“reit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reit. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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