Meaning of inherit in English

inherit

verb

/ɪnˈher.ɪt/ us

/ɪnˈher.ɪt/

inherit verb (FROM DEAD PERSON)

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C2 [ I or T ]

to receive money, a house, etc. from someone after they have died:

Who will inherit the house when he dies?

All her children will inherit equally.

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She will inherit her father's estate when she is 21.
She inherited a fortune from her grandmother.
Would you quit your job if you inherited lots of money?
He inherited the family business, but he had little interest in it and soon sold it.
The chief's son would inherit all his lands and rights.

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Inheriting & bequeathing

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inherit verb (QUALITY)

C2 [ T ]

to be born with the same physical or mental characteristics as one of your parents or grandparents:

inherit something from someone Rosie inherited her red hair from her mother.

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Innate and congenital

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inherit verb (PROBLEM)

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to begin to have responsibility for a problem or situation that previously existed or belonged to another person:

When I took on the job of manager, I inherited certain financial problems.

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Dealing with things or people

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(Definition of inherit from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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inherit

verb [ T ]

/ɪnˈher·ət/

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to receive money, property, or possessions from someone after the person has died:

Who will inherit the house when he dies?

biology

To inherit particular characteristics is to receive them from the parents through the genes (= chemical patterns).

(Definition of inherit from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

inherit | Business English

inherit

verb

/ɪnˈherɪt/ us

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[ I or T ] LAW, PROPERTY

to receive money, property, or assets from someone who has died:

All her children stand to inherit equally.

inherit sth from sb She inherited a fortune from her father when he died.

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if you inherit a situation, problem, department, etc., you become responsible for dealing with it or managing it:

The report showed that he inherited a $5.6 million revenue shortfall when he took over the department.

inherit sth from sb/sth When he took office, he inherited a deficit budget from the previous administration.

(Definition of inherit from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of inherit

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The fundamental distinction between inherited and acquired conditions has been noted.

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In the case of the latter, personalised labour service known as pongaje inherited from colonial times was outlawed.

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The man is the one who gives the family its patronym, leads the group and inherits the homestead.

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As a result, those who have since bought or inherited what was originally ' stolen ' land have no moral entitlement to it, legal titles notwithstanding.

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The colono could acquire ownership of improvements by reason of having made, bought or inherited them.

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The community ' inherited ' domestic utensils, furniture, and clothes, together with money and sometimes property, from the nuns' families.

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Such similarity not inherited from the proto-language has absolutely no bearing on the comparative method or genetic relatedness.

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The electoral culture inherited by the revolutionaries made no provision for declared candidates and contemporaries were equally wary of canvassing for votes.

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More significant was the growth of his rural estate : of the 155,000 hectares that he left at his death, only 60,000 had been inherited.

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Multiple inheritance is permitted, so attributes and their values can be inherited from multiple parents.

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With land inherited within a matrilineage, the members of the heir's lineage segment have priority, rather than his children.

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Although eye number is inherited, it is not heritable.

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In inheriting the value frames of elite rhetoric, citizens may end up endorsing values from both sides of the partisan divide.

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He also inherited the preference for a tough monetary stance to support sterling.

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Concepts are organised into a strict is-a hierarchy, so that properties are inherited from a class to its subclasses.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

繼承, 品質, 經遺傳而得…

Meaning of inherit in English

inherit verb (FROM DEAD PERSON)

inherit verb (QUALITY)

inherit verb (PROBLEM)

inherit | American Dictionary

inherit | Business English

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