- present participle of lease.
leasing
Americannoun
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leasings
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of leasing
First recorded before 950; Middle English lesing, Old English lēasung, verbal noun of lēasian “to tell lies,” derivative of lēas “free from, without, false”; see -less, -ing 1
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CoreWeave’s business involves buying advanced AI chips from Nvidia, installing them in data centers and leasing out that computing capacity to other firms.
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 leasing push is led by Tim Hughes, a former Stack Infrastructure executive the company hired this year.
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
Eighty percent of its leasing arrangements lost money, often vast amounts.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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 doth feed you with fittons, figments, and leasings.
From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson
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
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
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