lease

lease is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
4. transitive verb. 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.
5. transitive verb. The contract for such letting.
6. transitive verb. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
7. noun. a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment
8. noun. property that is leased or rented out or let

   Synonyms: letting, rental

9. noun. the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect
10. verb. engage for service under a term of contract

    "We took an apartment on a quiet street"

    "Let's rent a car"

    Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, rent, take

11. verb. grant use or occupation of under a term of contract

    "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"

    Synonyms: let, rent

12. verb. let for money

    "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"

    Synonyms: rent

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

    Synonyms: charter, hire, rent

Synonyms

letting, rental, charter, engage, hire, rent, take, let

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lease:

easel

Common word forms

leased, leaser, leases, leasing, leaseless

Words from these letters

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