Lease
[liːs] or [lis]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment.
(noun.) property that is leased or rented out or let.
(noun.) the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect.
(verb.) engage for service under a term of contract; 'We took an apartment on a quiet street'; 'Let's rent a car'; 'Shall we take a guide in Rome?'.
(verb.) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; 'I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners'.
手打:旺达--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
(v. t.) To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out.
(v. t.) To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
(v. t.) A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.
(v. t.) The contract for such letting.
(v. t.) Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
校對:卡特里娜
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Let (for a term of years).
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解釋/意思:
n. a contract letting a house farm &c. for a term of years: the duration or term of tenure: any tenure.—v.t. to let for a term of years:—pr.p. leas′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. leased.—adjs. Leas′able; Lease′hold held by lease or contract.—n. a tenure held by lease.—ns. Lease′holder; Leas′er one who leases.
n. in weaving the plane in which the warp-threads cross: this system of crossing.
v.i. (prov.) to glean.—n. Leas′ing gleaning.
阿斯特編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Some landlords, instead of raising the rent, take a fine for the renewal of the lease. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- To vich sum, he has added for the house and bisness--' 'Lease, good-vill, stock, and fixters,' interposed Mr. Weller. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- All the conditions of the lease might be sufficiently known from such a record. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The suspense seemed to have taken a new lease, and to have begun afresh from a recent date. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A tax of this kind, imposed during the currency of a lease, may, no doubt, distress or ruin the farmer. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- She and her father left the Hall when the latter took possession of the Crawley Arms in the village, of which he had got a lease from Sir Pitt. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But this increase of rent could be got only by granting leases to their tenants, who thereby became, in a great measure, independent of them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- At first the instruments were leased; but it was found that the leases were seldom renewed. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He is unable to keep it on; and there are deeds and leases to be looked over, and agreements to be drawn up. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn comes and goes pretty often, there being estate business to do, leases to be renewed, and so on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The expensive vanity of the landlord made him willing to accept of this condition; and hence the origin of long leases. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The law which secures the longest leases against successors of every kind, is, so far as I know, peculiar to Great Britain. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Edison then went to Toledo and secured a position at Fort Wayne, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, now leased to the Pennsylvania system. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The lands in America and the West Indies, indeed, are, in general, not tenanted nor leased out to farmers. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Edison's own account of the incident is very laughable: The engine was one of a number leased to the Grand Trunk by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- At first the instruments were leased; but it was found that the leases were seldom renewed. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In May, 1877, a man named Emery called at Hubbard’s office, and leased two telephones for twenty dollars. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- In the early part of 1881 the Edison Electric Light Company leased the old Bishop mansion at 65 Fifth Avenue, close to Fourteenth Street, for its headquarters and show-rooms. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Sanders’ relatives came to the aid of the Bell Company, and put money into its treasury, and soon Hubbard was leasing out telephones at the rate of a thousand a month. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The organization of the Edison Electric Light Company went back to 1878; but up to the time of leasing 65 Fifth Avenue it had not been engaged in actual business. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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