different between lease vs demisable
lease
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /li?s/
- Rhymes: -i?s
Etymology 1
From Middle English lesen, from Old English lesan (“to collect, pick, select, gather”), from Proto-Germanic *lesan? (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to gather”).
Cognate with Scots lease (“to arrange, gather”), Saterland Frisian leese (“to gather, read”), West Frisian lêze (“to read”), Dutch lezen (“to gather, read”), German lesen (“to gather, read”), Danish læse (“to collect, read”).
Verb
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased) (chiefly dialectal)
- (transitive) To gather.
- (transitive) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
- (transitive) To glean.
- (intransitive) To glean, gather up leavings.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:lease.
Etymology 2
From Middle English lesen, from Old English l?asian (“to lie, tell lies”), from l?as (“falsehood, lying, untruth, mistake”).
Verb
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
- (transitive, intransitive, Britain dialectal) To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
Derived terms
- leasing
Etymology 3
From Middle English lese, from Old English l?s (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *l?sw? (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?y-, *l?yd- (“to leave, let”). Cognate with Old Saxon l?sa (“meadow”). See also leasow.
Alternative forms
- leaze
Noun
lease (plural leases)
- An open pasture or common.
- 1928, Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much:
- Since as a child I used to lie
- Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
- Never, I own, expected I
- That life would all be fair.
- 1928, Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much:
Etymology 4
From Middle English lesen, from Old English l?esan (“to loosen, release, redeem, deliver, liberate”), from Proto-Germanic *lausijan? (“to release, loosen”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to cut, solve, separate”). Cognate with Dutch lozen (“to drain, discharge”), German lösen (“to release”), Swedish lösa (“to solve”), Icelandic leysa (“to solve”).
Alternative forms
- leese (Scotland)
Verb
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
- (transitive, Britain dialectal) To release; let go; unloose.
Etymology 5
From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), partly from Latin lax? (“to loose”) and partly from Old High German l?zan (“to let, let go, release”) (German lassen). Cognate with Old English l?tan (“to allow, let go, leave, rent”). More at let.
Verb
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
- (transitive) To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
- (transitive) To take or hold by lease.
- (intransitive) To grant a lease; to let or rent.
Derived terms
- re-lease
Translations
Noun
lease (plural leases)
- A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent.
- The period of such a contract.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18:
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
- And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18:
- A leasehold.
Derived terms
- off-lease
Translations
Descendants
- ? Dutch: leasen
- ? English: leasing
- ? Spanish: leasing
- ? Finnish: leasing
- ? Polish: leasing
- ? Swedish: leasing
Related terms
- lessor, lessee
Etymology 6
From leash.
Noun
lease (plural leases)
- The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
Anagrams
- Elsea, Seale, eales, easel, easle, seale
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li?s/, /lis/
- Hyphenation: lease
- Homophone: lies
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English lease.
Noun
lease f (plural leases, diminutive leaseje n)
- lease
- Synonym: pacht
Derived terms
- leaseauto
- leasewagen
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
lease
- first-person singular present indicative of leasen
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of leasen
- imperative of leasen
Middle English
Adjective
lease
- Alternative form of les
Noun
lease
- Alternative form of les
lease From the web:
- what lease means
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- what lease to own mean
- what lease car means
- what lease term is the most expensive
- what lease agreement
- what leasehold improvements can be capitalized
- what lease fees are negotiable
demisable
English
Etymology
demise +? -able
Adjective
demisable (not comparable)
- (law) Capable of being leased.
- a demisable estate
Anagrams
- Ambleside
demisable From the web:
- what does desirable mean
- what does demised mean
- what does demisable
- what is the meaning of desirable
- what does the word desirable mean
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