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

to leaseback

7.4

To sell property and then rent it back from the buyer

verb
/ˈliːsˌbæk/

Specialized

: vender y arrendar de nuevo

The company decided to leaseback its office building to free up capital for expansion.

Examples

After selling the property, they chose to leaseback the space to continue their operations.
After selling its headquarters building, the firm opted to leaseback the office space for continued use.
Many businesses leaseback assets as a way to improve cash flow without relocating.
They decided to leaseback their office space.
The company plans to leaseback several buildings this year.
To manage their finances better, the company decided to leaseback its warehouse after the sale.
In order to maintain liquidity, they chose to leaseback their machinery and equipment following the sale.

Surface Forms

leaseback infinitive

leased back past

leased back past participle

leasing back present participle

leasebacks third person singular

Morphology

leaseback = lease (transparent) = back + lease

The verb is simply the phrasal/compound verb 'lease back' turned into a single lexical item; its meaning is directly compositional. [Postprocessing: moved 'back' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Leaseback comes from lease ('to rent') and back ('again' or 'return'). To leaseback something is to sell it and then rent it from the new owner, so you get the money but keep using the asset.