- present participle of lease.
leasing
Americannoun
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leasings
plural
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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 drop in downtown office leasing appears to be waning, Condon said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
“The office market probably found its floor sometime last year, and we have seen some positive leasing momentum across the market.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Russian businesses are leasing air-defense systems, building their own and hiring gunners to shoot down incoming drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The leasing agents didn’t respond to my requests for comment.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 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
"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
I care no more for such a gillflirt," said the Jester, "than I do for thy leasings.
From Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
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 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
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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