Did you by any chance mean leases?
Definitions
Etymologies
- French laissées, from laisser to leave. See lease (transitive verb). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We are likely to drop into a period of severe Depression and financial instability, and on the other side is a life with less energy, less wealth and a whole host of other "lesses" that make up our new normal.”
“The gridlock also reflects a growing gulf within the so-called developing world between the have-nots and the have-lesses, as "emerging" economies like China and India diverge politically from the interests of poorer nations, even as they antagonize the wealthier nations that have long been the biggest emitters.”
The Huffington Post: Michelle Chen: Climate Talks Tank, Global South Sinks Further
“Experience suggests that most people behave the same, and the work-lesses at least offset the work-mores.”
The Huffington Post: Joe Minarik: "Good Debt" and "Bad Debt?"
“As long as income and wealth keep concentrating at the top, and the great divide between America's have-mores and have-lesses continues to widen, the Great Recession won't end -- at least not in the real economy.”
Robert Reich: 2009: The Year Wall Street Bounced Back and Main Street Got Shafted
“The issue on hand was "How can religious leaders lesses tension and misunderstanding after Fort Hood tragedy".”
“February 6, 2008 at 5:59 am k i will hug hims n skweez hims n call hims Morie ensted ob Georj. taht will nawt maek me luvs him lesses.”
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“Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted — private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training — edutainment products are part of a system that divides children into haves and have-lesses.”
“If we as a society decide we want to transfer wealth from the haves to the have nots or the have lesses then I would prefer we implement such a social agenda via government programs, and not try to do so within the private economy.”
“Su pane nostru de dogni die dàdenolu oe, perdona a nois sos peccados nostros perdona a nois sos peccados nostros comente nois perdonamus sos inimigos nostros, e non nos lesses ruer in tentatzione, ma lìberanos dae su male.”
“Especially when she has been visualising the guy who she wants to fill those lesses, taking a chick who is not me out for a romantic day, buying her flowers and chocolates and probably making sweet passionate love in some fancy hotel room.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lesses’.
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 more...
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The Request Line
This is the place to add words you'd like Charles Harrington Elster to pronounce for you!
swingeing, affiant, dahlia, hydrangea, re, clematis, Nabokov, casu marzu, schadenfreudgeon, nefarious, mewl, manteion and 170 more...
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6-letter words with precisely 1,2, & ...
allele, anatta, arrear, bedded, bettee, cocoon, doodad, gaggee, googol, hubbub, hammam, hummum and 30 more...
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Specific Excrement
Words that describe poo *very specifically*.
guano, frass, spraints, fumets, mutessing, fiants, crottels, worm-cast, tath, bodewash, coprolite, bois de vache and 55 more...
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Drop a deuce
rejectamenta, coprolite, ordure, stercoration, egesta, fecula, scumber, coprology, meconium, midden, nightsoil, honeywagon and 42 more...
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A-Hunting We Will Go
Hunting terms. See also http://www.wordnik.com/lists/hunting-cries
gorgeaunt, forloyne, dryfoot, foothot, fimashing, allay, mort, coursing, strake, battue, jink, jack and 27 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lesses.

chained_bear According to reesetee, "boar, bear, or wolf doo-doo." Oct 24, 2007