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Past tense of lease

regular verb

The past tense of lease is leased. The past participle is also leased.

Forms of lease

Base form (V1)lease /liːs/
Past tense (V2)leased /liːst/
Past participle (V3)leased /liːst/
Present participleleasing /ˈliːzɪŋ/
Third person singularleases /ˈlisɪz/

Leased in a sentence

  • The city leased the decktop to the co-op for $1 a year.2007 June 19, Charles V. Bagli, “A Co-op on Sutton Place Sues to Keep Its Backyard”, in New York Times. From the entry decktop
  • Please send me an offlist quote for a leased or purchased server with the following points detailed.2001, Bruce Lewin, “Dedicated/Co-Location Windows Server (Please reply offlist!)”, in alt.internet.providers.uk (Usenet). From the entry offlist
  • Several of the government owned barachois are leased out to artisanal fishermen and young farmers cooperatives.1987 June 1, Erik C. Paul, Fisheries Development and the Food Needs of Mauritius, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry barachois
  • The room above the bank had been leased to a pretended tradesman.1916, Melville Davisson Post, “The Man Hunters”, in The Saturday Evening Post. From the entry pretended
  • Following service in the First World War, when it was leased by the Admiralty, it suffered a swift decline.2020 October 21, Dr Joseph Brennan, “From the main line and over the waves”, in Rail, page 59. From the entry seaward

Meaning of lease

  1. noun An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.
  2. noun An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat.
  3. noun The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted.

Full definition of lease

Questions about the past tense of lease

What is the past tense of lease?
The past tense of lease is leased.
What is the past participle of lease?
The past participle of lease is leased.
Is lease a regular or irregular verb?
Lease is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lease (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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