Definition of Lease

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Definition of Lease

Lease

To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.

To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out.

To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.

A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.

The contract for such letting.

Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.

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Lease Quotations

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Samuel Butler

These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
Gale Norton

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.
Jim Varney

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.
Neil Abercrombie

We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
Joseph Jefferson

Lease Translations

lease in Dutch is pachten, in pacht hebben
lease in Finnish is vuokrata maata
lease in French is baillons, baillez, baillent, affermer, bailler
lease in German is Miete, Miete, Pacht
lease in Italian is prendere in affitto, noleggiare
lease in Norwegian is bygsel, bygsle, leiekontrakt, leie
lease in Portuguese is aluguel
lease in Spanish is arrendamiento, locacion, arriendo
lease in Swedish is hyra ut, hyreskontrakt, uthyrning

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