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Lease

noun
1.
Property that is leased or rented out or let.  Synonyms: letting, rental.
2.
A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment.
3.
The period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect.  Synonym: term of a contract.
verb
(past & past part. leased; pres. part. leasing)
1.
Let for money.  Synonym: rent.
2.
Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services.  Synonyms: charter, hire, rent.
3.
Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract.  Synonyms: let, rent.
4.
Engage for service under a term of contract.  Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, rent, take.  "Let's rent a car" , "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"



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"Lease" Quotes from Famous Books



... the captain, as soon as they were in the cabin, "God bless you for this! You've started the poor fellows on a fresh lease of life. And done me more good, boy, than ever I did ...
— Steve Young • George Manville Fenn
... trip he took to the East. His father died about this time and left him fifty thousand dollars, with which he bought the Taurus, a mine in which several adventurous spirits had dropped small fortunes. He acquired other properties; a lease here, an interest there. It began to be observed that he bought always with judgment. He seemed to have the touch of Midas. Where other men had ...
— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine
... the young man had slipped was close to a chapel placed between two columns and closed by an iron railing. It was customary for the chapter to lease at a handsome price to seignorial families, and even to rich burghers, the right to be present at the services, themselves and their servants exclusively, in the various lateral chapels of the long side-aisles of the cathedral. This simony is in practice to the present ...
— Maitre Cornelius • Honore de Balzac
... stocks we have two thousand a year, anyway, and we could pinch through on that till you got into some other business afterward, especially if we'd saved something out of your salary while it lasted. Basil, I want you to try it! I know it will give you a new lease of life to have a congenial occupation." March laughed, but his wife persisted. "I'm all for your trying it, Basil; indeed I am. If it's an experiment, you ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... U.S. 70 (1927). In Willing v. Chicago Auditorium Association, 277 U.S. 274 (1928) certain lessees desired to ascertain their rights under a lease to demolish a building after the lessors had failed to admit such rights on the allegation that claims, fears, and uncertainties respecting the rights of the parties greatly impaired the value of the leasehold. Because there ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin


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