lease

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

• n. A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent.
• n. The term or duration of such a contract.
• n. Property used or occupied under the terms of such a contract.
• transitive v. To grant use or occupation of under the terms of a contract.
• transitive v. To get or hold by such a contract.
• idiom a new lease on life An opportunity to improve one's circumstances or outlook.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• adj. false; lying; deceptive
• n. falsehood; a lie
• n. an open pasture or common
• v. To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
• v. To take or hold by lease.
• v. To grant a lease; to let or rent.
• n. A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent
• n. The period of such a contract
• n. A leasehold
• n. The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom
• v. to gather.
• v. to pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
• v. to glean.
• v. to glean, gather up leavings.
• v. To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
• v. To release; let go; unloose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• n. The temporary transfer of a possession to another person in return for a fee or other valuable consideration paid for the transfer
• n. The contract for such letting.
• n. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
• intransitive v. To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
• transitive v. To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; ; -- sometimes with out.
• transitive v. To hold under a lease; to take lease of.
• transitive v.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• To gather; pick; pick up; pick out; select.
• Specifically To glean, as corn.
• To glean; gather up leavings, as at harvest.
• To grant the temporary possession of, as lands, tenements, or hereditaments, to another for compensation at a fixed rate; let; demise.
• To take a lease of, or to take, as lands, etc., by a lease: as, he leased the farm from the proprietor.
• False; lying; deceptive.
• n. Falsehood; a lie.
• n. A contract transferring a right to the possession and enjoyment of real property for life or for a definite period of time or at will, usually made in consideration of a periodical compensation called rent, in modern times usually payable in money, but sometimes in a share of the produce, and in former times frequently in services.
• n. The written instrument by which a leasehold estate is created.
• n. The duration of tenure by lease; a term of leasing; hence, the terminable time or period of anything: as, to take property on a long lease; a short lease of life.
• n. A pasture.
• n. A common.
• n. In weaving, the system of crossings in the warp-threads in a loom between the yarn-beam and the heddles, effected by passing each warp-thread alternately over and under the lease-rods.
• n. In Australian mining, a mining leasehold; a piece of ground leased for the purpose of mining.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• v. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
• v. grant use or occupation of under a term of contract
• n. a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment
• v. engage for service under a term of contract
• v. let for money
• n. property that is leased or rented out or let
• n. the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect