Definitions for lease

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Spelling: [lees]

IPA: /lis/

Lease is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in lease (aeels).

Definitions for lease

noun

1. a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
2. the property leased.
3. the period of time for which a lease is made:
4. a system for keeping the warp in position and under control by alternately crossing the warp yarn over and under the lease rods.
5. the order of drawing in the warp ends.

Idioms

1. a new lease on life, a chance to improve one's situation or to live longer or more happily:

verb (used with object)

1. to grant the temporary possession or use of (lands, tenements, etc.) to another, usually for compensation at a fixed rate; let:
2. to take or hold by lease:

verb (used without object)

1. to grant a lease; let or rent:

Origin of lease

1350-1400; Middle English les Anglo-French (equivalent to Old French lais, French legs legacy), noun derivative of lesser to lease, literally, let go (equivalent to Old French laissier) Latin

Examples for lease

So Wilson had to innovate a new business plan—a $950 monthly lease, with 2,000 free copies.

And people searching to take over a lease can select “landlord approved” apartments to streamline the process.

Musk is there, too, having taken a three-year lease at Spaceport for testing reusable rockets.

The directors under their lease were entitled to the remaining $75,000.

Six weeks from the day he had obtained his lease he began his glue-making.

The schools buy or lease nearly everything from companies owned by Mitchell.

He sat down at Jenkins's desk, and began to read over a lease.

He has underpinned his future program by winning from NASA a 20-year lease on the legendary launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral.

He refused to renew the lease; and the man went wildly elsewhere.

"The lease is not in a hurry, sir," returned incorrigible Roland.