reversionary
adjEtymology From reversion + -ary.
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Pertaining to reversion, especially that of an estate.
- a reversionary interest or right
- If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Abandoned Branch Lands”, in Railway Magazine, page 428:
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- Small animals Began to mooch around and climb up this Reversionary desk and dustable heirloom.1958, Howard Nemerov, “Seven Macabre Songs”, in Mirrors and Windows: