Lease

(noun.) a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment.

(noun.) property that is leased or rented out or let.

(noun.) the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect.

(verb.) engage for service under a term of contract; 'We took an apartment on a quiet street'; 'Let's rent a car'; 'Shall we take a guide in Rome?'.

(verb.) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; 'I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners'.

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• Some landlords, instead of raising the rent, take a fine for the renewal of the lease. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• To vich sum, he has added for the house and bisness--' 'Lease, good-vill, stock, and fixters,' interposed Mr. Weller. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• All the conditions of the lease might be sufficiently known from such a record. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The suspense seemed to have taken a new lease, and to have begun afresh from a recent date. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A tax of this kind, imposed during the currency of a lease, may, no doubt, distress or ruin the farmer. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She and her father left the Hall when the latter took possession of the Crawley Arms in the village, of which he had got a lease from Sir Pitt. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But this increase of rent could be got only by granting leases to their tenants, who thereby became, in a great measure, independent of them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• At first the instruments were leased; but it was found that the leases were seldom renewed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He is unable to keep it on; and there are deeds and leases to be looked over, and agreements to be drawn up. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn comes and goes pretty often, there being estate business to do, leases to be renewed, and so on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The expensive vanity of the landlord made him willing to accept of this condition; and hence the origin of long leases. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The law which secures the longest leases against successors of every kind, is, so far as I know, peculiar to Great Britain. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Edison then went to Toledo and secured a position at Fort Wayne, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, now leased to the Pennsylvania system. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The lands in America and the West Indies, indeed, are, in general, not tenanted nor leased out to farmers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Edison's own account of the incident is very laughable: The engine was one of a number leased to the Grand Trunk by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• At first the instruments were leased; but it was found that the leases were seldom renewed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In May, 1877, a man named Emery called at Hubbard’s office, and leased two telephones for twenty dollars. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In the early part of 1881 the Edison Electric Light Company leased the old Bishop mansion at 65 Fifth Avenue, close to Fourteenth Street, for its headquarters and show-rooms. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Sanders’ relatives came to the aid of the Bell Company, and put money into its treasury, and soon Hubbard was leasing out telephones at the rate of a thousand a month. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The organization of the Edison Electric Light Company went back to 1878; but up to the time of leasing 65 Fifth Avenue it had not been engaged in actual business. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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