lease
1the property leased.
the period of time for which a lease is made: a five-year lease.
to grant the temporary possession or use of (lands, tenements, etc.) to another, usually for compensation at a fixed rate; let: She plans to lease her apartment to a friend.
to take or hold by lease: He leased the farm from the sheriff.
to grant a lease; let or rent: to lease at a lower rental.
Idioms about lease
a new lease on life, a chance to improve one's situation or to live longer or more happily: Plastic surgery gave him a new lease on life.
Origin of lease
1Other words for lease
Other words from lease
- leas·a·ble, adjective
- leaseless, adjective
- leaser, noun
- un·leas·a·ble, adjective
- un·leased, adjective
- well-leased, adjective
Words Nearby lease
Other definitions for lease (2 of 2)
a system for keeping the warp in position and under control by alternately crossing the warp yarn over and under the lease rods.
the order of drawing in the warp ends.
Origin of lease
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How to use lease in a sentence
Anyone who is taking space or looking at a lease expiration is looking at a major redesign.
Under these conditions, it would make more sense for companies that are active on Alaska’s North Slope to pursue sites they currently have under lease, which pose much lower risk.
The Trump administration opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil companies—but none may bite | By Scott L. Montgomery/The Conversation | August 26, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThe city’s lease for Civic Center Plaza had gone month-to-month.
The Deal Before the 101 Ash St. Debacle Helps Explain How We Got Here | Lisa Halverstadt and Jesse Marx | August 24, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoChapter 11 allows retailers to easily get out of lease agreements.
America’s Largest Shopping Mall Owner Gets a New Tenant: Itself | Daniel Malloy | August 20, 2020 | OzyThe city of San Diego has long struggled with leases for buildings to house its workers.
How the City Came to Lease a Lemon | Lisa Halverstadt and Jesse Marx | August 10, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
Increasingly, criminals actually lease their malware from a group that guarantees their malware against detection.
Ironically, as pope, his championing of the poor has given Liberation Theology a new lease on life.
So Wilson had to innovate a new business plan—a $950 monthly lease, with 2,000 free copies.
The schools buy or lease nearly everything from companies owned by Mitchell.
At This Creepy Libertarian Charter School, Kids Must Swear ‘to Be Obedient to Those in Authority’ | ProPublica | October 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe has underpinned his future program by winning from NASA a 20-year lease on the legendary launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral.
Tycoons in Space: One in Orbit and One Still Grounded | Clive Irving | October 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe wishes to cultivate it still, and offers to renew the lease for any number of years, and pay the rent punctually.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThe rent for which the owner can lease it, emerges simply as a consequence of the existing state of wages and prices.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockHe and his friends obtained the lease, for thirty-one years, of a rival line, which turned out a great financial success.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowIf the time be less, a verbal lease may be made, even though the lessee does not take immediate possession of the premises.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesA lease to a specified day continues during the whole of it, though custom or statute may prescribe a different rule.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney Bolles
British Dictionary definitions for lease (1 of 2)
/ (liːs) /
a contract by which property is conveyed to a person for a specified period, usually for rent
the instrument by which such property is conveyed
the period of time for which it is conveyed
a prospect of renewed health, happiness, etc: a new lease of life
to grant possession of (land, buildings, etc) by lease
to take a lease of (property); hold under a lease
Origin of lease
1Derived forms of lease
- leasable, adjective
- leaser, noun
British Dictionary definitions for lease (2 of 2)
/ (liːz) /
dialect open pasture or common
Origin of lease
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for lease
A contract that grants possession of property for a specified period of time in return for some kind of compensation.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Other Idioms and Phrases with lease
see new lease on life.
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