lease
UK/liːs/
lease noun: an interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold. Also the abbreviation of DHCP lease The temporary assignment of an IP address to a networked device.
Noun (1)
lease (plural leases)
- An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.
- An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat.
- The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted.
- The document containing such a contract or deed.
- The period of such an interest.
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
Verb (1)
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
- To grant a lease as a landlord; to let.
- 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.
- To assign a temporary IP address to (a networked device).
- To accept such an assignment of (an IP address).
Verb (2)
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
Verb (3)
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
- To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
Noun (2)
lease (plural leases)
Noun (3)
lease (plural leases)
- The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
Proper noun capitalized: Lease
Lease (plural Leases)
- A surname.
Also used as
lease is also the abbreviation of DHCP lease The temporary assignment of an IP address to a networked device.
lease is also the alternative form of leese.
lease meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
lease in Hindi
- पट्टा, लीज पर देना
lease in Tamil
- குத்தகை
lease in Marathi
- भाडेपट्टी, भाडेपट्टीवर देण्यासाठी
lease in Bengali
- ইজারা, লিজ দেওয়া, ইজারা দেওয়া
More languagesFewer languages
- lease in Telugu
- లీజు
- lease in Kannada
- ಲೀಸ್
- lease in Punjabi
- ਲੀਜ਼, ਲੀਜ਼ ਉੱਤੇ ਦੇਣਾ, ਲੀਜ਼'ਤੇ ਦੇਣਾ
- lease in Gujarati
- ભાડાપટ્ટે, ભાડાપટ્ટા, લીઝ
- lease in Odia
- ଲିଜ୍
- lease in Indonesian
- sewa guna usaha
- lease in Persian
- مدت اجاره moddat-e ejâre, اجارهنامه ejâre-nâme, اجاره کردن ejâre kardan
Examples of lease in a sentence
- Before my lease ended, I gave away my old sofa because I didn't want to move it.
- The owner of the property is the leaser when they rent it by lease to a lessee.
- Literature-based knowledge vendors often claim to lease various products, including algorithmically extracted facts, and human-curated literature references.
Synonyms of lease
Forms of lease
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | leases |
| alternative form | leaze |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | leases |
| present participle | leasing |
| past participle | leased |
| past | leased |
Origin of lease
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”).
Words formed from lease
- leasing
- ACMI lease
- crown lease
- DHCP lease
- dry lease
- head lease
- headlease
- improving lease
- leasee
- lease for lives
- leasehand
- leasehold
- leaseholder
- leaseholding
- leaseless
- lease line
- leasemonger
- lease provider
- lend-lease
- lessee
- lessor
- life-lease
- net lease
- new lease of life
- new lease on life
- off-lease
- pie crust lease
- sub-lease
- sublease
- superior lease
- surface lease
- underlease
- wedlease
- wet lease
- prelease
- leasable
- leaseability
- leaseable
- leaseback
- lease-lend
- lease out
- leaser
- re-lease
Phrases with lease
Words that rhyme with lease
Questions about lease
- What does lease mean?
- Lease means an interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.
- What is lease in Hindi?
- Lease in Hindi is पट्टा, लीज पर देना. See Lease meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is lease?
- Lease can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce lease?
- Lease is pronounced /liːs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of lease?
- The plural of lease is leases.
Words near lease in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lease (page history and authors); Lease (page history and authors); lease (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lease (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lease (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lease (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lease (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lease (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lease (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lease (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lease (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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