Usually means: Receives assets or traits legally.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word inherits:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. inherits: Merriam-Webster
  2. inherits: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inherits: Collins English Dictionary
  4. inherits: Vocabulary.com
  5. Inherits, inherits: Wordnik
  6. inherits: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. inherits: Wiktionary
  8. inherits: Dictionary.com
  9. inherits: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. inherits: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inherits: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. inherits: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inherits: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. inherits: Medical dictionary

(Note: See inherit as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (inherit)

verb:  (transitive) To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
verb:  (intransitive) To come into an inheritance.
verb:  (transitive) To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).
verb:  (transitive, biology) To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission.
verb:  (transitive) To derive from people or conditions previously in force.
verb:  (computing, programming, transitive) To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.
verb:  (computing, programming, transitive) To derive a new class from (a superclass).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To put in possession of.
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