- present participle of lease.
leasing
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Tenants that had snatched up excess space during the pandemic dialed back their leasing amid uncertain consumer demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
SpaceX earlier this year acquired Musk's AI start-up xAI, recently renamed SpaceXAI, external and best known for the controversial chatbot Grok, and also started leasing data centre capacity to other tech companies.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
According to the Financial Times, Castlelake is a major player in aircraft leasing, with a fleet of 375 planes rented out to airlines including Etihad, Qantas, Air India Express, Frontier and Viva.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
After leasing the property for years, Fallas bought the building in the 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Kwang, though, kept pushing, adding to his wholesale stores by eventually leasing plants in North Carolina to assemble in part the machines he sold for the Italian and German manufacturers.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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For to what purpose should an Historiographer make leasings, if history be a report of plaine trueth?
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard
He doth feed you with fittons, figments, and leasings.
From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben
"Sir Knight," saith Messire Gawain, "Needs must the King miscarry that setteth aside the counsel of his good knights for the leasings of a traitor."
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian
They do now but cry: Let us go and make sacrifice to our God, let them be oppressed by labor and exercised that they attend not to leasings.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.
I care no more for such a gillflirt," said the Jester, "than I do for thy leasings.
From Waverley by Scott, Walter, Sir