Lease \Lease\ (l[=e]z), v. i. [AS. lesan to gather; akin to D. lezen to gather, read, G. lesen, Goth. lisan to gather; cf. Lith lesti to peck.] To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.] --Dryden.
Lease \Lease\ (l[=e]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leasing}.] [F. laisser, OF. laissier, lessier, to leave, transmit, L. laxare to loose, slacken, from laxus loose, wide. See {Lax}, and cf. {Lesser}.] 1. To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out.
There were some [houses] that were leased out for three lives. --Addison.
2. To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
Lease \Lease\ (l[=e]s), n. [Cf. OF. lais. See {Lease}, v. t.] 1. The temporary transfer of a possession to another person in return for a fee or other valuable consideration paid for the transfer; especially, A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.
2. The contract for such letting.
3. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
Our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature. --Shak.
{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.
Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recorded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Recording}.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind, F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See {Cordial}, {Heart}.] 1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] ``I it you record.'' --Chaucer.
2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax.
3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.
Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i. 42.
{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.
The toughest decision usually was whether to buy or lease the photocopier.
Agency officials said they are investigating whether Gray and Robinson violated federal conflict-of-interest rules by using their positions as church-affiliated HUD sponsors to lease the government homes for themselves.
Cineplex also said it sold the lease of the Roosevelt Field Century Theatre to Loews Theatre Corp., a subsidiary of TriStar Pictures Inc., for $17 million.
In addition, she says, the marketing people have started discussing creative leasing packages; Bell & Howell's customers tend to lease rather than buy during downturns.
After settling with the Cohens, Integrated secured financing and today retains the lease.
The capital value of leased assets apart from property is at present usually set against spending allocations unless the lease meets only a short-term need.
In May, Swedish investor Lars-Erik Magnusson signed an agreement valued at $630 million to acquire a Chicago office building and lease two New York properties with options to buy them.
Partly by receiving management fees, lease payments and other income from its subsidiaries, the parent company alone was marginally profitable in 1987, even as it reported a record loss on a consolidated basis.
State oil and gas officials said the 10-year lease on the prospect is about to expire and speculated that might be Chevron's primary reason for drilling this year.
Asiana said it agreed with government "suggestions" to lease, rather than buy, one of six Boeing jets scheduled for delivery this year, and to delay until early 1993 the delivery of a $130 million Boeing 747-400 scheduled for late 1992.
He added that the lease between the Port Authority and ICBC is the first direct lease transaction in which the U.S. State Department didn't participate.
He added that the lease between the Port Authority and ICBC is the first direct lease transaction in which the U.S. State Department didn't participate.
Asiana, South Korea's second-largest airline after Korean Air, currently operates a fleet of 10 737-400s and two 737-500s, all under lease.
Then the company agreed to lease the shelters back from investors, at a monthly rent of $170, net of maintenance expenses.
I admired the joinery especially. No 1 Cumberland Place, NW1, on the east side of Regent's Park, costs Pounds 5.85m for a 72-year lease from the Crown.
The company would end its purchased power agreement with Century Power Corp. and lease the Springerville 1 generating station directly from a group of lessors.
The rental fee and the terms of the lease were negotiated by representatives of the Reagans and the owners, based on fair-market rental estimates from two independent appraisers, Fitzwater said.
The Interior Department announced a year's postponement of a Gulf of Alaska oil lease sale because of environmental concerns, even though state officials said a sale there posed little risk.
It has been identified by Hanson as one of the core businesses it wishes to expand. Peabody will also assume responsibility for borrowings, including capitalised lease obligations of ADollars 120m (Pounds 53m).
It seems likely that the next move on this crowded chess board will be an attempt to get government approval for AT&T and BT to lease lines in each other's markets.
Lacking sufficient capital, United must lease rather than purchase badly needed new aircraft.
The 19-plane expansion, with the lease of an additional plane in 1990, will double Alaska Air Group's MD-60 fleet to 40.
It is expected that only about a dozen of the major factories will be privatized the first year, although the sale or lease of small state-owned shops, restaurants and services are progressing more quickly.
AEL will lease the facility from the airport authority, which will pay construction costs.
Ideally, it suggests, it would like them to buy or lease trains, but it recognises that such an obligation could be a barrier to entry.
Vorobyov wrote that two years ago, a similar survey asked more than 500 farm specialists if they planned to lease land, and 25 percent gave a "categorical no" while only 10 percent said they did.
The charges seemed characteristic of a city that gained its prim reputation by closing all of its adult bookstores, banning the sale or lease of X-rated videos, and starting one of the first citizens' anti-pornography groups.
After that, it will be put up for lease by the highest bidder, like other farmland in national parks.
The company said the changes regarded improperly documented lease transactions, new product development costs and payments to its sister company, United Press International.
It is acquiring a new 25-year lease on the premises.