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What does inheritance mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word inheritance? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
  2. (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
  3. (biology) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
  4. (programming) In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
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He absented himself from council meetings, got into debt, and sold off his wife's inheritance.
Further, she had additional income prised from the Church as well as her inheritance as queen dowager of France.
Mendelian inheritance is in fact an instance of a more general mechanism called Weismannist inheritance.
You need to make a Will, plan ahead for inheritance tax and put some money aside for funeral expenses.
Since I did not seek the inheritance and have hardly joined the jet set as a consequence of it, I refuse to either feel guilty or apologize.
He is being urged to reform inheritance tax so that less well-off people would be taxed less.

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