lease
English
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -iːs
Etymology 1
From Middle English lesen, from Old English lesan (“to collect, pick, select, gather”), from Proto-Germanic *lesaną (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to gather”). Cognate with Scots lease (“to arrange, gather”), Saterland Frisian leese (“to gather, read”), West Frisian lêze (“to read”), Dutch lezen (“to gather, read”), German lesen (“to gather, read”), Danish læse (“to collect, read”).
Verb
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- (transitive, chiefly dialectal) to gather.
- (transitive, chiefly dialectal) to pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
- (transitive, chiefly dialectal) to glean.
- (intransitive, chiefly dialectal) to glean, gather up leavings.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:lease.
Etymology 2
From Middle English lesen, from Old English lēasian (“to lie, tell lies”), from lēas (“falsehood, lying, untruth, mistake”).
Verb
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- (transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
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Etymology 3
From Middle English lese, from Old English lǣs (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lēswō (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy-, *lēyd- (“to leave, let”). Cognate with Old Saxon lēsa (“meadow”). See also leasow.
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Noun
lease (plural leases)
- an open pasture or common
- 1928, Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much:
- Since as a child I used to lie
- Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
- Never, I own, expected I
- That life would all be fair.
- 1928, Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much:
Etymology 4
From Middle English lesen, from Old English līesan (“to loosen, release, redeem, deliver, liberate”), from Proto-Germanic *lausijaną (“to release, loosen”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to cut, solve, separate”). Cognate with Dutch lozen (“to drain, discharge”), German lösen (“to release”), Swedish lösa (“to solve”), Icelandic leysa (“to solve”).
Alternative forms
- leese (Scotland)
Verb
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Etymology 5
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”). More at let.
Verb
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- (transitive) To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
- (transitive) To take or hold by lease.
- (intransitive) To grant a lease; to let or rent.
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Noun
lease (plural leases)
- A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent
- The period of such a contract
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18:
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
- And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18:
- A leasehold
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Etymology 6
From leash.
Noun
lease (plural leases)
- The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
lease
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of leasen
- (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of leasen
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of leasen
Middle English
Adjective
lease
- Alternative form of les
Noun
lease
- Alternative form of les
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