different between lease vs finance

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)

1. (transitive) To gather.
2. (transitive) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
3. (transitive) To glean.
4. (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)

1. (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)

1. 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.

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)

1. (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)

1. (transitive) To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
2. (transitive) To take or hold by lease.
3. (intransitive) To grant a lease; to let or rent.

Derived terms

• re-lease

Translations

Noun

lease (plural leases)

1. A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent.
2. 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:

3. 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)

1. 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)

1. lease

   Synonym: pacht

Derived terms

• leaseauto
• leasewagen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lease

1. first-person singular present indicative of leasen
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of leasen
3. imperative of leasen

Middle English

Adjective

lease

1. Alternative form of les

Noun

lease

1. Alternative form of les

English

Etymology

From Middle English finaunce, from Anglo-Norman, Middle French finance, from finer (“to pay ransom”) (whence also English fine (“to pay a penalty”)), from fin (“end”), from Latin f?nis.

Original English sense c. 1400 was “ending”. Sense of “ending/satisfying a debt” came from French influence: in sense of “ransom” mid 15th century, in sense of “taxation” late 15th century. In sense of “manage money” first recorded 1770.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?næns/, /fa??næns/, /f??næns/
• Hyphenation: fi?nance
• Rhymes: -æns

Noun

finance (countable and uncountable, plural finances)

1. The management of money and other assets.
2. The science of management of money and other assets.
3. (usually in the plural) Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company.

4. The provision of a loan, payment instalment terms, or similar arrangement, to enable a customer to purchase an item without paying the full amount straight away.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

finance (third-person singular simple present finances, present participle financing, simple past and past participle financed)

1. (intransitive) To conduct, or procure money for, financial operations; manage finances.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To pay ransom.
3. (transitive) To manage financially; be financier for; provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking.

   Synonym: fund

   • 2000, G. Colombo, Sanctions and remedies in cases of illegal financing of political parties, Trading in Influence and the Illegal Financing of Political Parties, Third European Conference of Specialised Services in the Fight against Corruption, page 64,

     Indeed, it is a crime to finance or make contributions in any form to political parties, their factions, parliamentary groups, i.e. members of the Italian parliament (if they are Italian) and the European parliament, regional, provincial and town councillors, candidates in such offices, party leaders: […] .

   • 2011, Thomas W. Dombroski, How America Was Financed, page xi,

     This is not a historical novel yet it is in a sense historical and contained within this book is a true story of how America was financed.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To extort ransom from.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of finance

Further reading

• finance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “finance”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “finance” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "finance" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
• "finance" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?nant?s?]

Noun

finance f pl

1. finances

Related terms

• finan?ní
• finan?ník
• financovat

Further reading

• finance in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• finance in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Adverb

finance

1. financially

French

Etymology

From Old French finer (“to pay”) + -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.n??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

finance f (plural finances)

1. finance

Derived terms

• financer

Descendants

• ? Danish: finans
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: finans
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: finans

Further reading

• “finance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).