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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

... left untouched, for Sanders loved horses and the humor of that gate- way, and the old spring-house with its green dripping walls. No longer even were the forest trees in the big yard ragged and storm-torn, but trimmed carefully, their wounds dressed, and sturdy with a fresh lease on life; only the mournful cedars were unchanged and still harping with every passing wind the same requiem for the glory that was gone. With another groan the old colonel turned his horse toward home—the home that but for the slain woodlands would soon pass in that same way to house a Sanders ...

— The Heart Of The Hills • John Fox, Jr.

... resembles rather those disorders that permanently weaken, and so invite repeated assaults. The ascetic epidemic passed away; but, before doing so, it thoroughly saturated with supernaturalism the social atmosphere and impressed its power upon the public mind. It gave supernaturalism a new and longer lease of life, and paved the way for other outbreaks, of a less general, but still of a ...

— Religion & Sex - Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development • Chapman Cohen

... idea that Hanbridge was the only place in the world for self-respecting men of fashion. But before leaving they informed Edwin that a fellow at the corner of the Square was letting out rather useful barrels on lease. This fellow proved to be an odd-jobman who had been discharged from the Duke of Wellington Vaults in the market-place for consistently intemperate language, but whose tongue was such that he had persuaded the landlord on this occasion to let him borrow a dozen ...

— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett

... be well if arrangements could be made with lords of manors, the Government, or others who are owners of waste lands, to grant those Gipsies who are without vans, and living in tents only, prior to the act coming into force, a long lease at a nominal rent of, say, half an acre or an acre of land, for ninety-nine years, on purpose to encourage them to settle down to the cultivation of it, and to take to honest industry—as many of them are prepared to do. By this means a number of the Gipsies would collect ...

— Gipsy Life - being an account of our Gipsies and their children • George Smith

... hummer and no mistake," he commented half aloud; "good thing-it-didn't catch me out in the middle of the alkali or Red Bill and his cronies might have had a new lease of life." ...

— The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings • Margaret Burnham

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