Usually means: Contractual agreement for temporary use.
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We found 61 dictionaries that define the word lease:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lease: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lease: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lease: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lease: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lease: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lease, lease: Wordnik
  7. lease: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Lease, lease: Wiktionary
  9. lease: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lease: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lease: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. lease: Dictionary.com
  13. lease (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lease: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lease (computer science), Lease (disambiguation), Lease: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lease: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lease: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lease: Rhymezone
  19. lease: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lease: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lease: Free Dictionary
  22. lease: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Lease, lease: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. lease: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. lease: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. lease: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. lease: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  9. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  10. LEASE: Accounting Glossary
  11. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  12. Lease: bizterms.net
  13. Lease: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  14. Lease: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  15. lease: Finance-Glossary.com
  16. Credit Terms (No longer online)
  17. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  18. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  19. Lease: Investopedia
  20. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  21. lease: Legal dictionary
  22. lease: Financial dictionary
  23. Lease: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  24. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  25. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lease: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lease: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lease: Political
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  3. lease: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lease: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
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(Note: See leasable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (formal, law) An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.
noun:  An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat.
noun:  The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted.
noun:  The document containing such a contract or deed.
noun:  The period of such an interest.
verb:  (transitive, formal, law) To grant a lease as a landlord; to let.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To hold a lease as a tenant.
verb:  (transitive) To gather.
verb:  (transitive) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
verb:  (transitive) To glean.
verb:  (intransitive) To glean, gather up leavings.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
noun:  An open pasture or common.
verb:  (transitive, UK dialectal) To release; let go; unloose.
noun:  The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
noun:  A surname.

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