'Lease' definitions:

Definition of 'lease'

(from WordNet)
noun
Property that is leased or rented out or let [syn: lease, rental, letting]
noun
A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment
noun
The period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect [syn: lease, term of a contract]
verb
Let for money; "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad" [syn: rent, lease]
verb
Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services [syn: rent, hire, charter, lease]
verb
Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners" [syn: lease, let, rent]
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?" [syn: lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take]

Definition of 'Lease'

From: GCIDE
  • Lease \Lease\ (l[=e]s), n. [Cf. OF. lais. See Lease, v. t.]
  • 1. The temporary transfer of a possession to another person in return for a fee or other valuable consideration paid for the transfer; especially, 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The contract for such letting. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time. [1913 Webster]
  • Our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Lease and release a mode of conveyance of freehold estates, formerly common in England and in New York. its place is now supplied by a simple deed of grant. --Burrill. --Warren's Blackstone. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Lease'

From: GCIDE
  • Lease \Lease\ (l[=e]z), v. i. [AS. lesan to gather; akin to D. lezen to gather, read, G. lesen, Goth. lisan to gather; cf. Lith lesti to peck.] To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Lease'

From: GCIDE
  • Lease \Lease\ (l[=e]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leased; p. pr. & vb. n. Leasing.] [F. laisser, OF. laissier, lessier, to leave, transmit, L. laxare to loose, slacken, from laxus loose, wide. See Lax, and cf. Lesser.]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • There were some [houses] that were leased out for three lives. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'lease'

From: GCIDE
  • Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Recording.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind, F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See Cordial, Heart.]
  • 1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] "I it you record." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events. [1913 Webster]
  • Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i. 42. [1913 Webster]
  • To record a deed, mortgage, lease, etc., to have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'lease'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Lease'