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LETTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Property that is leased or rented out or let
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("letting" 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 "letting"):
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb let
Context examples:
Her mother financed the settlement, you see, so the girl wasn't afraid of being punished for letting me go.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
No, cried he, that is letting her off too easily: she shall die a much more cruel death; I will eat her.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
And letting himself out, he walked off without farther ceremony.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
"And you DO think something better of me than you did?"—said he, letting it fall, and leaning against the mantel-piece as if forgetting he was to go.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She then took a large house in Edward-street, and has since maintained herself by letting lodgings.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“Five,” replied the other, letting loose his string.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Some people even talked of a promise to his wife on her deathbed, and others of the son and the uncle not letting him.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
His intention was to rest Dave, letting him run free behind the sled.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
To achieve these goals, CAMDA adopted the approach of community-wide experiment, letting the scientific community analyze the same standard data sets.
(Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)
In the tests, by letting the material dry and then rehydrating it, the particles can still release the larvicide normally.
(Thyme oil and corn starch prove deadly for mosquito larvae, SciDev.Net)
