- present participle of lease.
leasing
Americannoun
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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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Developers starting projects now are making a bet that leasing demand will continue to grow amid an uncertain economic outlook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
SpaceX earlier this year acquired Musk's AI start-up xAI, recently renamed SpaceXAI, external and best known for the controversial chatbot Grok, and also started leasing data centre capacity to other tech companies.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
According to the Financial Times, Castlelake is a major player in aircraft leasing, with a fleet of 375 planes rented out to airlines including Etihad, Qantas, Air India Express, Frontier and Viva.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
After leasing the property for years, Fallas bought the building in the 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Money would come in—and with it, food—on the rare occasion that Dad landed an odd job or Mom received a check from the oil company leasing the drilling rights on her land in Texas.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
He doth feed you with fittons, figments, and leasings.
From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben
For all thy sages are exceeding deceitful, they say leasings before thyself—that thou shalt find in this day's space.
From Brut by Mason, Eugene
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Hakluyt, Richard
"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 Evans, Sebastian
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