lease

[lease]

To lease something is to borrow it in exchange for money. If you lease a car from a dealer, for example, you make payments and you get to drive the car, but at the end of the contract you have to give it back.

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To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.

Noun
a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment

Noun
property that is leased or rented out or let

Noun
the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect

Verb
engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let''s rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

Verb
grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"

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Verb
let for money; "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"

Verb
hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services


v. i.
To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.

v. t.
To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out.

v. t.
To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.

v. t.
A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.

v. t.
The contract for such letting.

v. t.
Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.


Lease

Lease , v. i. [AS. lesan to gather; akin to D. lezen to gather, read, G. lesen, Goth. lisan to gather; cf. Lith lesti to peck.] To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.] Dryden.

Lease

Lease , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leased ; p. pr. & vb. n. Leasing.] [F.laisser, OF. laissier, lessier, to leave, transmit, L. laxare to loose, slacken, from laxus loose, wide. See Lax, and cf. Lesser.] 1. To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out.
There were some [houses] that were leased out for three lives.
2. To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.

Lease

Lease , n. [Cf. OF. lais. See Lease, v. t.] 1. A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation. 2. The contract for such letting. 3. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
Our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature.
Lease and release a mode of conveyance of freehold estates, formerly common in England and in New York. its place is now supplied by a simple deed of grant. Burrill. Warren's Blackstone.

To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.

To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out.

A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.

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Usage Examples

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.

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