- 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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The director would be able to manage public works projects, including construction, buying or leasing property, exercising eminent domain with City Council approval, granting street permits, regulating parking and recommending budgets for the department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The leasing agents didn’t respond to my requests for comment.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Crusoe had expected to expand the site with Oracle and OpenAI, but after the firms signed deals with other developers, Crusoe ended up leasing the additional buildings to Microsoft instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Instead, it is leasing it to the private developer, which is using low-income housing tax credits and private financing to build hundreds of housing units for homeless veterans on the property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 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
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 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
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
He doth feed you with fittons, figments, and leasings.
From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson
I care no more for such a gillflirt," said the Jester, "than I do for thy leasings.
From Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
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