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Lease

name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold. formal
  2. 2
    An open pasture or common. dialectal

    "Since as a child I used to lie Upon the leaze and watch the sky, Never, I own, expected I That life would all be fair."

  3. 3
    The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom. dialectal
  4. 4
    a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment wordnet
  5. 5
    An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat.
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  1. 6
    property that is leased or rented out or let wordnet
  2. 7
    The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted.
  3. 8
    the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect wordnet
  4. 9
    The document containing such a contract or deed.
  5. 10
    The period of such an interest.

    "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date:"

  6. 11
    The temporary assignment of an IP address to a networked device.
Verb
  1. 1
    To grant a lease as a landlord; to let. formal, transitive
  2. 2
    To gather. dialectal, transitive
  3. 3
    To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate. UK, ambitransitive, dialectal
  4. 4
    To release; let go; unloose. UK, dialectal, transitive
  5. 5
    engage for service under a term of contract wordnet
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  1. 6
    To hold a lease as a tenant; to rent. informal, transitive

    "I'm leasing a small apartment in Runcorn for a month while I'm there for work."

  2. 7
    To pick, select, pick out; to pick up. dialectal, transitive
  3. 8
    grant use or occupation of under a term of contract wordnet
  4. 9
    To assign a temporary IP address to (a networked device). transitive
  5. 10
    To glean. dialectal, transitive
  6. 11
    let for money wordnet
  7. 12
    To accept such an assignment of (an IP address). transitive
  8. 13
    To glean, gather up leavings. dialectal, intransitive
  9. 14
    hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), partly from Latin laxō (“to loose”) and partly from Old High German lāzan (“to let, let go, release”) (German lassen), cognate with Old English lǣtan (“to allow, let go, leave, rent”) whence let.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), partly from Latin laxō (“to loose”) and partly from Old High German lāzan (“to let, let go, release”) (German lassen), cognate with Old English lǣtan (“to allow, let go, leave, rent”) whence let.

Etymology 3

From Middle English lesen, from Old English lesan (“to collect, pick, select, gather”), from Proto-West Germanic *lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną (“to gather”).

Etymology 4

From Middle English lesen, from Old English lēasian (“to lie, tell lies”), from lēas (“falsehood, lying, untruth, mistake”).

Etymology 5

From Middle English lese, from Old English lǣs (“meadow”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāsu (“meadow”). See also leasow.

Etymology 6

From Middle English lesen, from Old English līesan (“to loosen, release, redeem, deliver, liberate”), from Proto-Germanic *lausijaną (“to release, loosen”).

Etymology 7

From leash.

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