- present participle of lease.
leasing
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Anthropic is now leasing the entire facility for more than $1 billion a month.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
It would diversify the group’s investment portfolio, and a reliable tenant was committed to leasing the building once it was finished, Peck said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Meta could also become a player in cloud computing by leasing out computing infrastructure it doesn’t need—a possibility Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said was on the table on Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Eligibility is open to all Californians buying or leasing their first EV — this is confirmed through a buyer’s attestation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Even as convict leasing faded away, strategic forms of exploitation and repression emerged anew.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
He doth feed you with fittons, figments, and leasings.
From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson
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
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
He hates fowle leasings, and vile flatterie, Two filthie blots in noble gentrie; And lothefull idlenes he doth detest, The canker worme of everie gentle brest.
From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church
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
