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  • present participle of lease.
Definitions

leasing

[lee-zing] / ˈli zɪŋ /
VERB
rent object, residence
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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The rent on the studio was cheap — about $1,500 a month — and the leasing agent, he said, told him he’d probably pay only an additional $50 for utilities.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

“In the worst-case scenario they destroy capital,” he said, while in the best case, the neoclouds will be “cyclical leasing companies.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

I can see benefits of leasing, though—you don’t need to worry about repairs after the warranty runs out.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Anthropic is now leasing the entire facility for more than $1 billion a month.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

The reaction would begin—speeding neutrons would hit uranium atoms, which would split, re- leasing energy and more neutrons.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

This anecdote led to a long discussion of All those idle thoughts and fantasies, Devices, dreams, opinions unsound, Shows, visions, soothsays, and prophecies, And all that feigned is, as leasings, tales, and lies.

From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Sir Walter Scott

"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 Sebastian Evans

For all thy sages are exceeding deceitful, they say leasings before thyself—that thou shalt find in this day's space.

From Brut by Eugene Mason

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 Richard Hakluyt

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 Philip P. Wells



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