Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /liːs/
lease (leases, present participle leasing; past and past participle leased)
- (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To gather.
- (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
- (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To glean.
- (intransitive, chiefly dialectal) To glean, gather up leavings.
lease (leases, present participle leasing; past and past participle leased)
- (ambitransitive, UK dialectal) To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
lease (plural leases)
- An open pasture or common.
- 1928, Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much:
- Since as a child I used to lie
- Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
- Never, I own, expected I
- That life would all be fair.
- 1928, Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much:
lease (leases, present participle leasing; past and past participle leased)
Verblease (leases, present participle leasing; past and past participle leased)
- (transitive) To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
- (transitive) To take or hold by lease.
- (intransitive) To grant a lease; to let or rent.
lease (plural leases)
- A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent.
- The period of such a contract.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18:
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
- And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18:
- A leasehold.
- French: loyer
lease (plural leases)
- The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
Lease
Proper noun
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