'Leased' definitions:
Definition of 'leased'
From: WordNet
adjective
Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers; "a chartered plane"; "the chartered buses arrived on time" [syn: chartered, hired, leased] [ant: unchartered]
Definition of 'Leased'
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]