Meaning

9 senses
  1. (formal, transitive)To grant a lease as a landlord; to let.

    let for money

  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.

    hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

  3. (transitive)To assign a temporary IP address to (a networked device).

    pachten

    арендова́тьarendovátʹ, брать в аре́ндуbratʹ v aréndu, взять в аре́ндуvzjatʹ v aréndu

  4. (transitive)To accept such an assignment of (an IP address).

  5. (dialectal, transitive)To gather.

  6. (dialectal, transitive)To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.

  7. (dialectal, transitive)To glean.

  8. (dialectal, intransitive)To glean, gather up leavings.

  9. (UK, ambitransitive, dialectal)To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.

Examples

75 sentences
  1. Tom wants to extend his lease.

    deTom möchte seinen Mietvertrag verlängern. — brauchinet

  2. We'd like to extend our lease.

  3. Our lease runs out in October.

  4. Tom is planning to renew the lease.

  5. We're signing a new lease next week.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract:

Origin

From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let,

From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), partly from Latin laxō (“to loose”) and partly from Old High German lāzan (“to let, let go, release”) (German lassen), cognate with Old English lǣtan (“to allow, let go, leave, rent”) whence let.

From Middle English lesen, from Old English lesan (“to collect, pick, select, gather”), from Proto-West Germanic *lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną (“to gather”).

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Forms

leases, leasing, leased, leased
Base formlease · to lease
3rd person singularleases
Present participleleasing
Past simpleleased
Past participleleased

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylease
he, she, itleases

Past simpleLesson

all personsleased

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave leased
he, she, ithas leased

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill lease

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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