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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)

  1. (formal, transitive) To grant a lease as a landlord; to let.
  2. (informal, transitive) 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.
  3. (transitive) To assign a temporary IP address to (a networked device).
  4. (transitive) 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)

  1. (dialectal, transitive) To gather.
  2. (dialectal, transitive) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.

See all 17 meanings of lease

Adjective

leased

  1. 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

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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

  1. lease-lend
  2. leaseability
  3. leaseable
  4. leaseback
  5. leasebacks
  6. leased
  7. leasee
  8. leasees
  9. leasehand
  10. leasehands
  11. leasehold

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