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air rights en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) The right to build over an existing property.
    • In the 1970s, Donald Trump paid $5m for the air rights above the landmarked Tiffany building on Fifth Avenue, which, along with various other deals, allowed him to inflate what would have been a 20-storey building into the 58-storey Trump Tower. 2019 June 1, Oliver Wainwright, “Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2020:
  2. (plural, plural-only) The right to fly an aircraft over a certain territory.

Translations (4)

fi kiinteistön pystysuuntainen ulottuvuus (right to build over an existing property) · cmn 領空權 /领空权 (right to fly over a certain territory) · fi lento-oikeus (right to fly over a certain territory) · cmn 上空建築權 /上空建筑权 (right to build over an existing property)