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🏢 A sell-and-rent deal 🏢 To sell and rent
leaseback

leaseback

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An arrangement where someone sells property and then rents it back from the buyer
  • noun
  • /ˈliːsˌbæk/
  • Specialized
: venta con arrendamiento
  • What about that leaseback idea you had?
  • sale and leaseback

JC Penney and General Electric Pension Trust entered into a sale and leaseback agreement.

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Examples

  • Consumer advocates say they were snagged by a classic "sales leaseback" scheme.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Tax investors have provided a critical source of capital for renewable energy projects by investing cash into joint ventures in exchange for tax attributes, or through sale-leaseback structures.

    Blog text (9)

  • It is selling some of its property and looking at a potential partial leaseback of that property.

    Gamers Nexus

  • I've got the greatest idea for a medical... and dental leaseback plan.

    The Boost (1988)

  • Once one ignores B, all that is left is a basic sale-leaseback transaction between D and A.

    Blog text (18)

  • JC Penney and General Electric Pension Trust entered into a sale and leaseback agreement.

    YaleCourses

  • Since the sale-leaseback transaction is a prelude to the ultimate development of farmland, such a lease typically contains a prohibition on the application of sewage sludge to the property under lease.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Vijay Rakesh, an analyst with Sterne Agee, speculated that AMD could make $150 million on a sell/leaseback deal on its corporate real estate in Sunnyvale.

    Blog text (4)

  • The company decided to enter into a leaseback arrangement to free up cash while retaining the use of its office space.

  • In a leaseback deal, the seller can continue operating from the property after selling it.

Surface Forms

leaseback singular
leasebacks plural

Morphology

leaseback = lease (transparent) = back + lease

Meaning is a straightforward composition of 'lease' + 'back' describing leasing with a return-to-owner action, so learners who know both words can infer the sense. [Postprocessing: moved 'back' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Leaseback is made from lease ('to rent') and back ('again' or 'return'). It names an arrangement where someone sells a property and then immediately rents it back, so they can keep using the place after the sale.