Elamur Dictionary⌕

☰

dictionaries / English / L / lease

lease

noun (leases); verb (leases, leased, leasing); old use: to glean

«lease» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

A lease is a written agreement to rent a house or land for a time. tree →
To lease is to rent something under such an agreement. tree →
(old use, in rhymes) To go a-leasing is to go gleaning, picking up the corn left in the fields after harvest. tree →

In the lessons

in old rhymes «went a-leasing» means gathering the leftover grain in the fields; in modern life a family may lease a flat

Examples

We signed a lease for the flat. tree →
They leased a field for their sheep. tree →
Titty Mouse went a-leasing in the field. tree →
Tatty Mouse went a-leasing too. tree →

Note

nothing for maths. In the tales «lease» is not about renting; it belongs to the old rhyme about gleaning.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «lease» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«lease» in the school dictionary on Mova free.

This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lease/