leased
/liːst/
leased is the simple past and past participle of lease.
Meaning of lease
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)
Adjective
leased
- Transferred under the terms of a lease.
- The resemblance borne by such a land carriage to a ship put under charter-party is, perhaps, closer where the entire business of one railway company, with its tracks, rolling-stock, equipments, and goodwill become leased for a certain term to another company.1880, James Schouler, A Treatise on the Law of Bailments, Little, Brown, page 327
Words formed from leased
- leased access
- leased facility
- leased fee
- leased line
- unleased
Words that rhyme with leased
- beast
- east
- yeast
- deceased
- feast
- least
- creased
- east-northeast
- priest
- a contented mind is a perpetual feast
- batiste
- ceased
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Questions about leased
- What does leased mean?
- Leased means transferred under the terms of a lease.
- What is leased the simple past and past participle of?
- Leased is the simple past and past participle of lease.
- What part of speech is leased?
- Leased is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce leased?
- Leased is pronounced /liːst/.
Words near leased in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: leased (page history and authors); lease (page history and authors). 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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