“leasing” is a form of
lease
/liːs/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms leases leasing leased leaze
- noun (formal, law) An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.
- noun An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat.
- noun The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted.
- noun The document containing such a contract or deed.
- noun The period of such an interest.
- verb (transitive, formal, law) To grant a lease as a landlord; to let.
- verb (transitive, informal) To hold a lease as a tenant; to rent. “I'm leasing a small apartment in Runcorn for a month while I'm there for work.”
- verb (computing, transitive) To assign a temporary IP address to (a networked device).
- verb (computing, transitive) To accept such an assignment of (an IP address).
- verb (transitive) To gather.
- verb (transitive) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
- verb (transitive) To glean.
- verb (intransitive) To glean, gather up leavings.
- verb (ambitransitive, UK dialectal) To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
- noun An open pasture or common.
- noun The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
tenancy letting rental term of a contract rent hire charter let engage take
Etymology
From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), partly from Latin laxō (“to loose”) and partly from Old High German lāzan (“to let, let go, release”) (German lassen), cognate with Old English lǣtan (“to allow, let go, leave, rent”) whence let.
From Middle English lesen, from Old English lesan (“to collect, pick, select, gather”), from Proto-West Germanic *lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną (“to gather”).
From Middle English lesen, from Old English lēasian (“to lie, tell lies”), from lēas (“falsehood, lying, untruth, mistake”).
From Middle English lese, from Old English lǣs (“meadow”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāsu (“meadow”). See also leasow.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.]
- verb 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. There were some [houses] that were leased out for three lives.
- verb To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
- noun 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.
Etymology [AS. lesan to gather; akin to D. lezen to gather, read, G. lesen, Goth. lisan to gather; cf. Lith lesti to peck.]
Etymology [F.laisser, OF. laissier, lessier, to leave, transmit, L. laxare to loose, slacken, from laxus loose, wide. See Lax, and cf. Lesser.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “lease”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details