lease : Idioms & Phrases


Improving lease

  • (Scots Law), an extend lease to induce the tenant to make improvements on the premises.
Webster 1913

Lease and release

  • a mode of conveyance of freehold estates, formerly common in England and in New York. its place is now supplied by a simple deed of grant. Burrill. Warren's Blackstone.
Webster 1913

lease giver

  • noun someone who grants a lease
    lessor.
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lease-lend

  • noun the transfer of goods and services to an ally to aid in a common cause
    lease-lend.
    • lend-lease during World War II was extremely generous
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lend-lease

  • noun the transfer of goods and services to an ally to aid in a common cause
    lease-lend.
    • lend-lease during World War II was extremely generous
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To record a deed, mortgage, lease

  • etc., to have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public.
Webster 1913