Definitions for lease
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lease, rental, lettingnoun

   property that is leased or rented out or let

2. leasenoun

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

3. lease, term of a contractverb

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

4. rent, leaseverb

   let for money

   "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"

5. rent, hire, charter, leaseverb

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

6. lease, let, rentverb

   grant use or occupation of under a term of contract

   "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"

7. lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, takeverb

   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?"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. LEASEnoun

   Etymology: laisser, French. Henry Spelman

   1. A contract by which, in consideration of some payment, a temporary possession is granted of houses or lands.

   Why, cousin, wer’t thou regent of the world,
   It were a shame to let this land by lease. William Shakespeare.

   Lords of the world have but for life their lease,
   And that too, if the lessor please, must cease. John Denham.

   I have heard a man talk with contempt of bishops leases, as on a worse foot than the rest of his estate. Jonathan Swift.

   2. Any tenure.

   Our high-plac’d Macbeth
   Shall live the lease of nature. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   Thou to give the world increase,
   Short’ned hast thy own life’s lease. John Milton.

2. To Leaseverb

   To let by lease.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   Where the vicar leases his glebe, the tenant must pay the great tithes to the rector or impropriator, and the small tithes to the vicar. John Ayliffe, Parergon.

3. To Leaseverb

   To glean; to gather what the harvest men leave.

   Etymology: lesen, Dutch.

   She in harvest us’d to lease;
   But harvest done, to chare-work did aspire,
   Meat, drink, and two-pence, was her daily hire. Dryden.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lease

   A lease is a contractual arrangement calling for the user (referred to as the lessee) to pay the owner (referred to as the lessor) for the use of an asset. Property, buildings and vehicles are common assets that are leased. Industrial or business equipment are also leased. Basically a lease agreement is a contract between two parties: the lessor and the lessee. The lessor is the legal owner of the asset, while the lessee obtains the right to use the asset in return for regular rental payments. The lessee also agrees to abide by various conditions regarding their use of the property or equipment. For example, a person leasing a car may agree to the condition that the car will only be used for personal use.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lease

   A lease is a legal contract or agreement that allows one party, known as the lessee, to use and occupy a property owned by another party, known as the lessor, for a specified period of time in exchange for regular payments. The terms and conditions of the lease are outlined in the contract and usually include provisions regarding rent amount, length of lease period, responsibilities for repairs and maintenance, restrictions on use, etc. Leases are commonly used in property rental situations, such as apartments or business spaces, as well as for vehicles and equipment.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Leaseverb

   to gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean

2. Leaseverb

   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

3. Leaseverb

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

4. Leaseverb

   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

5. Leaseverb

   the contract for such letting

6. Leaseverb

   any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time

7. Etymology: [F. laisser, OF. laissier, lessier, to leave, transmit, L. laxare to loose, slacken, from laxus loose, wide. See Lax, and cf. Lesser.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lease

   A lease is a contractual arrangement calling for the lessee to pay the lessor for use of an asset. The narrower term rental agreement can be used to describe a lease in which the asset is tangible property. Language used is that the user rents the land or goods let or rented out by the owner. The verb to lease is less precise as it can refer to either of these actions. Examples of a lease for intangible property are use of a computer program, or use of a radio frequency. The term rental agreement is also sometimes used to describe a periodic lease agreement internationally and in some regions of the United States.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lease

   lēs, n. a contract letting a house, farm, &c. for a term of years: the duration or term of tenure: any tenure.—v.t. to let for a term of years:—pr.p. leas′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. leased.—adjs. Leas′able; Lease′hold, held by lease or contract.—n. a tenure held by lease.—ns. Lease′holder; Leas′er, one who leases. [Fr. laisser, to leave—L. laxāre, to loose, laxus, loose.]

2. Lease

   lēz, v.i. (prov.) to glean.—n. Leas′ing, gleaning. [A.S. lesan, to gather.]

3. Lease

   lēs, n. in weaving, the plane in which the warp-threads cross: this system of crossing.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. LEASE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lease is ranked #8473 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Lease surname appeared 3,896 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Lease.
   
   94.4% or 3,679 total occurrences were White.
   1.9% or 75 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.3% or 53 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.2% or 49 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.6% or 25 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.3% or 15 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Contract
   • Give

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'lease' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4313

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'lease' in Nouns Frequency: #1552

Anagrams for lease »

1. easel

How to pronounce lease?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lease in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lease in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of lease in a Sentence

1. Vikram Kumar:

   The lease extensions have a significant impact on the project's financial viability both from a debt and equity perspective.

2. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray:

   This is an opportunity for the port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters - and reject this short-term lease.

3. Gary Miliefsky:

   [They] have become so frequent and due to the massively deployed secret botnets (malware running on computers all over the globe), you can lease a DDoS attack against any target, like Dyn, for a very low cost, in addition, with the exponential power of computing, one can build DoS equipment for less than $300.

4. Berman Jackson:

   What they're saying is the lease and the key are the beginning and end of the story.

5. Restituto Padilla:

   We are not yet aware of the actual terms and conditions of the lease agreement, including the cost and duration.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lease
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=lease
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lease
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lease
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=lease
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=lease
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html