Lease

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent.
  • n. The term or duration of such a contract.
  • n. Property used or occupied under the terms of such a contract.
  • v. To grant use or occupation of under the terms of a contract.
  • v. To get or hold by such a contract.
  • idiom. a new lease on life An opportunity to improve one's circumstances or outlook.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. false; lying; deceptive
  • n. falsehood; a lie
  • v. To release; let go; unloose.
  • v. To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
  • n. an open pasture or common
  • n. The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom
  • v. To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
  • v. To take or hold by lease.
  • v. To grant a lease; to let or rent.
  • n. A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent
  • n. The period of such a contract
  • n. A leasehold
  • v. to gather.
  • v. to pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
  • v. to glean.
  • v. to glean, gather up leavings.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
  • v. To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; ; -- sometimes with out.
  • v. To hold under a lease; to take lease of.
  • n. The temporary transfer of a possession to another person in return for a fee or other valuable consideration paid for the transfer
  • n. The contract for such letting.
  • n. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
  • v.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To gather; pick; pick up; pick out; select.
  • Specifically To glean, as corn.
  • To glean; gather up leavings, as at harvest.
  • To grant the temporary possession of, as lands, tenements, or hereditaments, to another for compensation at a fixed rate; let; demise.
  • To take a lease of, or to take, as lands, etc., by a lease: as, he leased the farm from the proprietor.
  • n. A contract transferring a right to the possession and enjoyment of real property for life or for a definite period of time or at will, usually made in consideration of a periodical compensation called rent, in modern times usually payable in money, but sometimes in a share of the produce, and in former times frequently in services.
  • n. The written instrument by which a leasehold estate is created.
  • n. The duration of tenure by lease; a term of leasing; hence, the terminable time or period of anything: as, to take property on a long lease; a short lease of life.
  • False; lying; deceptive.
  • n. Falsehood; a lie.
  • n. A pasture.
  • n. A common.
  • n. In weaving, the system of crossings in the warp-threads in a loom between the yarn-beam and the heddles, effected by passing each warp-thread alternately over and under the lease-rods.
  • n. In Australian mining, a mining leasehold; a piece of ground leased for the purpose of mining.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
  • v. grant use or occupation of under a term of contract
  • n. a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment
  • v. engage for service under a term of contract
  • v. let for money
  • n. property that is leased or rented out or let
  • n. the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect
  • Verb Form
    leased    leases    leasing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    contract    undertake    acquire    get    time period    period of time    period   
    Form
    leased    leasing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    glean    let    demise   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bernice    Clarice    Clarisse    Denise    Elise    Greece    Luis    Maurice    Nice    Patrice   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    contract    mortgage    investment    purchase    rental    license    rend    ownership    insurance    grant