 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lease
noun
1: property that is leased or rented out or let [syn: {rental},
{letting}]
2: a contract granting use or occupation of property during a
specified time for a specified payment
3: the period of time during which a contract conveying
property to a person is in effect [syn: {term of a
contract}]
verb
1: let for money; "We rented our apartment to friends while we
were abroad" [syn: {rent}]
2: hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and
services [syn: {rent}, {hire}, {charter}]
3: grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am
leasing my country estate to some foreigners" [syn: {let},
{rent}]
4: 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: {rent}, {hire}, {charter},
{engage}, {take}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lease \Lease\ (l[=e]z), verb (used without an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lease \Lease\ (l[=e]s), verb (used with an object) [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.
There were some [houses] that were leased out for
three lives. --Addison.
2. To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant
leases his land from the owner.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lease \Lease\ (l[=e]s), noun [Cf. OF. lais. See {Lease}, verb (used with an object)]
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.
2. The contract for such letting.
3. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such
a tenure holds good; allotted time.
Our high-placed Macbeth
Shall live the lease of nature. --Shak.
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), verb (used with an object) [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.
2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
They longed to see the day, to hear the lark
Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest.
--Fairfax.
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.
Those things that are recorded of him . . . are
written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i.
42.
{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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "lease":
adverse possession, alodium, bareboat charter, burgage, charter,
claim, colony, copyhold, de facto, de jure, dependency,
derivative title, equitable estate, estate at sufferance,
estate for life, estate for years, estate in expectancy,
estate in fee, estate in possession, estate tail, farm, farm out,
fee, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute,
fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible,
fee simple determinable, fee tail, feod, feodum, feud,
feudal estate, fief, fiefdom, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold,
gavelkind, having title to, hire, hire out, hiring, hold, holding,
job, knight service, lay fee, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend,
leasehold, legal claim, legal estate, legal possession, lend-lease,
let, let off, let out, mandate, occupancy, occupation,
original title, owning, paramount estate, particular estate,
possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession,
prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights,
remainder, rent, rent out, rental, reversion, seisin, socage,
squatting, sublease, sublet, subrent, tenancy, tenantry, tenure,
tenure in chivalry, title, underlease, underlet, undertenancy,
usucapion, vested estate, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage
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