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CONVEYANCING
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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 another
Familiarity information: CONVEYANCING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
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