Synonyms:
lease, rental, letting
Meaning: property that is leased or rented out or let
Synonyms:
lease
Meaning: a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
rent, lease
Meaning: let for money; "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"
Usage examples
Do you fancy I will grant you a lease for so long a term?
Simeon lifted his hands in adoration and thankfulness and renewed his lease.
When the lease expired, the landlord could appropriate all the improvements that the tenant had made.
If, after a time, the value of the use is greater than the contract rent, the tenant is fortunate in having his lease.
But he is the loser if he is bound by lease or agreement to pay rent in a locality where land has become less valuable.
Under the old, almost fixed, conditions in agriculture such a lease was equitable, but when prices are rapidly changing and when new methods are being introduced, it gives rise to great hardships.
The Whigs, who were defending the banks, wished to prevent the adjournment of the special session until the regular session should begin, during the course of which they expected to renew the lease of life now held under sufferance by the banks--in which, it may be here said, they were finally successful.