lessor

[ les-awr, le-sawr ]

/ ˈlɛs ɔr, lɛˈsɔr /

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noun

a person, group, etc., who grants a lease.

Words related to lessor

Words nearby lessor

lesser zygomatic muscle, lesser's triangle, lessing, lessing, doris, lesson, lessor, lest, lester, lestobiosis, lesya, let

Origin of lessor

1350–1400; Middle English lesso(u)r < Anglo-French. See lease¹, -or²

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH lessor

lesser lessor

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Examples from the Web for lessor

“Mr. Mitchell thus controls both your management company and your lessor,” the IRS wrote in a denial letter.
At This Creepy Libertarian Charter School, Kids Must Swear ‘to Be Obedient to Those in Authority’|ProPublica|October 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the hands of a lessor actor, she might have even seemed like an exposition machine.
Welcome to Snowpiercer’s Apocalypse|Teo Bugbee|June 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Of course this may be forbidden, and often is by the lessor, without his consent.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
An act done by a wrongdoer, not under the lessor's order, will not justify the lessee in quitting.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles

The lessor cannot, during the lease, change the form of the thing hired (Art. 1723).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 2|Various
Owner or lessor of buildings for assemblage liable for gross misdemeanor.
The I.W.W.|Paul Frederick Brissenden
The tenure of the use of the mines by the lessees was usually simply the period of the continued satisfaction of the lessor.
Herbert Hoover|Vernon Kellogg

British Dictionary definitions for lessor

lessor

/ (ˈlɛsɔː, lɛˈsɔː) /

noun

a person who grants a lease of property

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