REIT

See also: reit and réit

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: rēt, IPA^(key): /riːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt
• Homophone: reet

Noun

REIT (plural REITs)

1. (finance, real estate) Acronym of real estate investment trust, an investment device where the holding company uses the funds invested to hold real estate.
   • 2018 January 9, Brian Alexander, “America's Rural Hospitals Are Dangerously Fragile”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 1 April 2019:

     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.

Anagrams

• Teri, iter, iter., rite, tier, tire, trie