LEASE
What does "LEASE" mean?
A contract granting use of property for a set period in exchange for payment.
Meanings
- A legal agreement to rent land, a building, or equipment for a fixed term. They signed a two-year lease on the downtown apartment.
- To grant or take property under such an agreement. The company leases its delivery vans rather than buying them.
- A renewed or extended period of vitality, in the phrase 'a new lease on life'. The surgery gave her grandfather a new lease on life. figurative
Word origin
From Anglo-French 'les', from the Old French verb 'lesser' (to let, leave), from Latin 'laxare' meaning to loosen or release.
Remember it
LEASE contains EASE: a good lease should let you live with ease, for a fixed time.
A little poem
We borrow the walls, the years, the breath we draw-
a lease, not a deed, on everything we saw.
couplet
Wordplay
- My landlord said the apartment came with a new lease on life. I said great, I'd hate to renew the old one.
What it teaches
Everything you call yours is really a lease: held for a term, paid for in time, and due back in the end.
Quick facts
What does LEASE mean?
A contract granting use of property for a set period in exchange for payment.
Is LEASE a valid word?
Yes — LEASE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is LEASE?
LEASE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does LEASE come from?
From Anglo-French 'les', from the Old French verb 'lesser' (to let, leave), from Latin 'laxare' meaning to loosen or release.
What can LEASE teach us?
Everything you call yours is really a lease: held for a term, paid for in time, and due back in the end.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.