to lease
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3.3
- verb
- /liːs/
:
alquilar
- Lloyd Pfenning is Dad's major renter, leasing twelve acres from him most years to plant in oats and corn.
- lease space
- purchase or lease
- own or lease
Now should you buy or lease the panel's?
- Now should you buy or lease the panel's?
- And so we, we said we better lease a couple of company of cars.
- So besides my workshops, there are going to corporate headquarters and teach them how to lease space.
- I think his was like a month or so after mine and we do not want to lease again from where that car was leased from.
- And you basically buy or lease mail software from these companies and their techs help you set up all the stuff that you don't know how to do.
Examples
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I want you to call a storage company and lease enough space for everything in the house.
Fiction book (2000) -
Rather than build entirely new facilities, hospitals could lease existing space in good locations and modify it for their purposes.
Academic text (1996) -
I want to lease it.
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You see, we lease a good amount of land in this country.
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Is it possible to lease one of the vault boxes?
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"We submitted a proposal to lease and renovate the site, and it was accepted."
Academic text (1995) -
There was a time when many products were leased rather than sold outright.
Academic text (1994) -
So I ended up leasing a shop at Dubai Mall, moving from the small shop for whatever reason.
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I flew into Boston, where I leased a car and drove to Vermont.
Fiction book (2001) -
They decided to lease a new apartment while they searched for a permanent home.
Synonyms
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1.8
To pay money to use a house or car for a short time
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1.2
To pay to use something for a short time, for example a car
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5.9
To hire a bus, boat, or plane for private use for a set time
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
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word lease comes from an old word meaning 'to allow' or 'to take something for use'. A helpful way to remember it is that to lease is to get permission to use a car, house, or land for a time while you pay for it.