leases

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.

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