to lease
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3.5
- verb
- /liːs/
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- After negotiating the terms, they agreed to lease the property for five years at a reasonable rate.
- lease property
- lease space
- lease land
How they had a program where they can lease you low cost instruments.
- How they had a program where they can lease you low cost instruments.
- And then Jane Stanford leased those properties back to them.
- Now what happens is those guys who own those quota, they basically lease it out to other fishermen.
- Not central banks, not leasing companies, not even governments.
- He's like, if it's one of the three FS, lease it.
- And then you have the real vacancy that's leased and then you have the these the, the, the sublease.
- Tipping on rent When paying rent, what is customary to tip the landlord slash leasing company?
- For me I use leasing as a way to meet clients that I wouldn't have met on the sale side.
Examples
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They have leased an old mental hospital.
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The land on which shelters stand is still state property but is leased to local herders.
Academic text (1999) -
We lease this back from the company we sold it to.
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Yeah, I'd like to lease your land.
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And it would be a piece of cake to lease the land from the ranchers.
Fiction book (2002) -
And so I leased the whole floor of a downtown office building in Cincinnati, OH.
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Travis's mother owns the house; she leased it to them as a wedding present.
Fiction book (1998) -
The facility is actively leased by a corporate think-tank reported to have ties to the government.
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They leased it out to candy concessionaires.
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We've really just leased an oil well called Vince Collins and granted Ms. O'Connor the right to tap.
Synonyms
∞
6.7
Allow someone to live in or use your house for money
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1.8
To allow someone to use a house or room in return for money
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2.1
Allow someone to use a room or building for money
Compounds
- Formal
Government sends military supplies to an allied country during a war to help it
- Archaic
Sending weapons and supplies from one country to an ally during war without payment right away
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word lease comes from an old word meaning 'to allow' or 'to leave something for someone to use'. So when an owner leases property, they are officially giving someone permission to use it in return for payment.