inheritance
/ɪnˈherɪtəns/ noun [C or U] LAW, PROPERTYDefinition
› the money, property, or assets that someone receives from a person who has died: spend/invest your inheritance She invested her inheritance in setting up her own financial consultancy business.
(Definition of inheritance noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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