Lessee
[le'siː] or [lɛ'si]
Definition
(v. t.) The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.
Typist: Steven
Definition
n. one to whom a lease is granted.
Inputed by Alisa
Examples
- A week after that I had occasion to go to New York, and, visiting the office of the lessee of the wire, I asked him if he hadn't sent such and such a message. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He brought the matter of building a new Traveling Engine, as he called it, to the attention of the lessees of the mine in 1813. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Editor: Quentin