Lease
[liːs] or [lis]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Let (for a term of years).
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- Some landlords, instead of raising the rent, take a fine for the renewal of the lease. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To vich sum, he has added for the house and bisness--' 'Lease, good-vill, stock, and fixters,' interposed Mr. Weller. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- All the conditions of the lease might be sufficiently known from such a record. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The suspense seemed to have taken a new lease, and to have begun afresh from a recent date. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A tax of this kind, imposed during the currency of a lease, may, no doubt, distress or ruin the farmer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- 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. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- 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. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At first the instruments were leased; but it was found that the leases were seldom renewed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He is unable to keep it on; and there are deeds and leases to be looked over, and agreements to be drawn up. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn comes and goes pretty often, there being estate business to do, leases to be renewed, and so on. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The expensive vanity of the landlord made him willing to accept of this condition; and hence the origin of long leases. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The law which secures the longest leases against successors of every kind, is, so far as I know, peculiar to Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The lands in America and the West Indies, indeed, are, in general, not tenanted nor leased out to farmers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At first the instruments were leased; but it was found that the leases were seldom renewed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In May, 1877, a man named Emery called at Hubbard’s office, and leased two telephones for twenty dollars. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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