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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



... hurry," urged Professor Rosello. "There is no great rush, as far as I am concerned. One or two days will make no difference to me. Though if you don't take up my offer I shall probably lease the show to some professional. I want to keep my name before the public, for probably I shall wish to go back into the business again. And besides, it is a pity to let such a good outfit as we now have go into storage. But think it over carefully. I suppose, ...
— Joe Strong on the Trapeze - or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer • Vance Barnum
... the lesson taught of old— Life saved for self is lost, while they Who lose it in His service hold The lease of God's ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... lease and copyholds, My lands and tenements, My parks, my farms, and orchards, My houses and my rents, My Dutch stock and my Spanish stock, My five ...
— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray
... the electors of Newark. Sir Robert Peel opposed the motion, not only with considerable ability, but with really unanswerable reasons. He asked if it was meant that a tenant who voted against his landlord was to keep his lease for ever. If so, tenants would vote against a landlord to secure themselves, as they now vote with a landlord to secure themselves. I thought, and think, this argument unanswerable; but then it is unanswerable in favour of the ballot; for, if it be impossible to deal with intimidation by punishment, ...
— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) - Lord Macaulay's Speeches • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... Walt. Maybe more than you think we do. And with things getting better, we'll lease more teleprinters and get more advertising. You're likely to get better than the price of your passage out of that story we're sending off on the Bolivar, and that won't be the end of it, either. Fenris is going to be in the news for ...
— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper


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