re-lease

American  

[ree-lees] / riˈlis /

verb (used with object)

re-leased, re-leasing

1. to lease again.

2. Law. to make over (land, property, etc.), as to another.

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noun

1. a contract for re-leasing land or property.

2. the land or property re-leased.

Etymology

Origin of re-lease

First recorded in 1820–30; re- + lease ¹

Example Sentences

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It’s easy enough to find a new tenant for a simple warehouse but much harder to re-lease a facility purpose-built to Amazon’s exacting specifications.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2022

The idea was a gradual renovation, allowing tenants to re-lease a few at a time as vacant units were refurbished, Gray said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2016

That afternoon—it was early in my experience on V-gallery—I was using my go-round sheet as a guide for pulling the brake to re-lease the runs.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

There would come the time when they must forfeit that lease and contract through non-payment, or agree to re-lease them to the original owner.

From The White Desert by Anton Otto Fischer

The only question was whether to re-lease them to the Canadian Pacific or to the Canadian Northern.

From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar Douglas Skelton

The recent departure of a law firm that had been in the building more than 50 years cleared out five floors that will quickly be re-leased to data tenants, said Eades, who represents the landlord.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

The nearly 160,000 square feet that Yelp left empty is about half of the building’s space, and about half of that has been re-leased.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2022

We had blueprints of our embassy buildings in Tehran, of course, and we had talked to the black and female hostages re-leased before Christmas, although they were unable to tell us much about the others.

From Time Magazine Archive

Recently re-leased from the technical department of a rayon pulp mill closed due to the effect of the Japanese-Chinese war on pulp production, I am ready and able to go anywhere that opportunity shows itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rosemary had been re-leased very early in her training.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

OPI’s rental income has declined at least 3.5% annually since 2021, while re-leasing costs have increased.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025