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LEASE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("lease" is a kind of...):

contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)

Derivation:

lease (engage for service under a term of contract)

lease (grant use or occupation of under a term of contract)

lease (let for money)

lease (hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Property that is leased or rented out or let

Synonyms:

lease; letting; rental

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("lease" is a kind of...):

belongings; holding; property (something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lease"):

car rental; hire car; rent-a-car; self-drive; u-drive; you-drive (a rented car)

sublease; sublet (a lease from one lessee to another)

Derivation:

lease (grant use or occupation of under a term of contract)

lease (let for money)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect

Synonyms:

lease; term of a contract

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("lease" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Derivation:

lease (engage for service under a term of contract)

lease (grant use or occupation of under a term of contract)

lease (let for money)

lease (hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engage for service under a term of contract

Example:

Shall we take a guide in Rome?

Synonyms:

charter; engage; hire; lease; rent; take

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "lease" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Derivation:

lease (the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect)

lease (a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract

Example:

I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners

Synonyms:

lease; let; rent

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "lease" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lease"):

sublease; sublet (lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence examples:

They lease cars to the tourists

They lease the tourists their cars

Derivation:

lease (a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment)

lease (property that is leased or rented out or let)

lease (the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Let for money

Example:

We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad

Synonyms:

lease; rent

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "lease" is one way to...):

contract; undertake (enter into a contractual arrangement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Derivation:

lease (a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment)

lease (property that is leased or rented out or let)

lease (the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect)

lessee (a tenant who holds a lease)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

Synonyms:

charter; hire; lease; rent

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "lease" is one way to...):

contract; undertake (enter into a contractual arrangement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Derivation:

lease (a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment)

lease (the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect)

lessee (a tenant who holds a lease)

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 Context examples: 

If you need to buy, sell, or lease property, then act on that in the days that follow the new moon of March 24.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mr. Jonas Oldacre then informed me that there were a number of documents—building leases, title-deeds, mortgages, scrip, and so forth—which it was necessary that I should see and understand.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It had been real business, relative to the renewal of a lease in which the welfare of a large and—he believed—industrious family was at stake.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

After that period, they are held incapable of any employment of trust or profit; they cannot purchase lands, or take leases; neither are they allowed to be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and bounds.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There was a sale of the furniture and lease, at Norwood; and Tiffey told me, little thinking how interested I was in the story, that, paying all the just debts of the deceased, and deducting his share of outstanding bad and doubtful debts due to the firm, he wouldn't give a thousand pounds for all the assets remaining.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On December 19, you may want to sign a contract, as it is an ideal day for forming a long-term, stable relationship, such as when you sign a lease or close on a house.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mercury will be retrograde from February 16 to March 9, so you should not sign a lease, close on a house, or commit to a contractor during that phase.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It would be a mistake to sign a lease or close on a house during Mercury retrograde, so do all you can to avoid that period.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Just don’t sign a lease or close on a house with Mercury retrograde.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This would be an ideal time to lease a new apartment, to buy or sell property, or to renovate or decorate.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)