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lease
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noun (n)
- a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment(noun.communication)source: wordnet30
- the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect(noun.time)source: wordnet30
- 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.(noun)source: webster1913
verb (v)
- To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.(verb)source: webster1913
- 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.(verb)source: webster1913