(v. i.) To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
(v. t.) To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out.
(v. t.) To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
(v. t.) A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.
(v. t.) The contract for such letting.
(v. t.) Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(2) In 2005, Westbrook bought the £190m head lease for Dolphin Square, once the largest block of flats in the world with a colourful list of former residents, including more than 70 MPs, at least 10 Lords and a number of intelligence agency personnel.
(3) The Labour leadership election gained a new lease of life today as parliament's first black female MP, Diane Abbott , entered the race and the party extended the deadline for nominations, giving extra time for new candidates to emerge.
(4) In 2012, the state and county committed $226m to the team in a new lease deal.
(5) In addition, another 25 million acres of state and federal lands in the U.S. Arctic — onshore and off — are open to oil and gas leasing; of that,13.5 million acres have already been leased.
(6) A student who lost her leg in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash says she has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech prosthetic leg and that she is stronger for her harrowing experience.
(7) Many articles published on the topic of lease financing point only to the benefits that may be derived.
(8) The MD-83 aircraft, owned by Spanish company Swiftair and leased by Algeria's flagship carrier, disappeared from radar less than an hour after it took off from Ouagadougou for Algiers.
(9) Although providing a new lease on life is very rewarding within itself, it can also be stressful for all involved.
(10) His lieutenants have floated the possibility that whoever takes over our roads could get them on 100-year leases – which would just be transferring a public asset to some private-sector oligarch.
(11) The retailer has also taken a £70m hit from onerous leases, and distribution centre closures in Harlow and Weybridge cost £30m.
(12) NT chief minister Adam Giles said the decision to lease the port rather than sell allowed the government to ensure conditions are upheld.
(13) But landlords often put your rent up massively at the end of your lease, meaning you have to move every two years."
(14) The village of Point Hope, Alaska, joined by numerous native and environmental groups, is now challenging offshore development on the 2.9 million acres in the Chukchi Sea, contending that MMS violated federal environmental laws when it conducted the lease sales.
(15) Her rent was increased by $20 as soon as her fixed-term lease ended, despite already being more expensive than similar properties in the area.
(16) That approval was therefore invalid, she said, adding the company was yet to obtain a mining lease for Alpha.
(17) But as Kathimerini.com reports, the plan is to definitely to lease the islands, not sell them forever: The fund reviewed 562 of the estimated 6,000 islands and islets under Greek sovereignty.
(18) The company hired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in 2012 to drill on petroleum leases in the Chukchi — Sugarland, Texas-based Noble Drilling US LLC — in December agreed to pay $12.2m after pleading guilty to eight felony environmental and maritime crimes on board the Noble Discoverer.
(19) However, Adani has turned to the national native title tribunal to override this objection, which would allow the state government to issue a lease for the mine.
(20) Contracts with a Lend Lease-led consortium were signed last week and construction is due to begin this year.
Leese
Definition:
(v. t.) To lose.
(v. t.) To hurt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yvette Cooper is the only candidate who looks like a prime minister | Richard Leese Read more Cooper said: “Clearly it is better to have a legal asylum route from the camps so as to prevent people travelling in the first place, but right now, given the scale of the humanitarian crisis, we also have to do our bit to help Europe deal with those who have fled into European democracies.
(2) 1.05am BST Jake Peavy Dave Leese (@dl_1009) @Busfield @LengelDavid I especially like watching a pitcher who's been declared legally blind, have a go at hitting a 90mph fastball October 26, 2013 Yes, the Sox starter is legally blind without corrective lenses.
(3) Leese's fear that Friday's no victory will further undermine the north unless it receives equal powers to Scotland has quickly become the consensus among experts.
(4) While it’s currently a Labour club, Leese points out this wasn’t always the case.
(5) Leese and council chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein have led a series of sometimes breathtaking property deals.
(6) Leese, the long-serving city council leader who has an uneasy relationship with Lloyd, has not yet officially ruled himself out of a mayoral bid, though he has never expressed particular enthusiasm for the idea.
(7) The difference in Manchester is that Richard [Manchester council leader Sir Richard Leese] and Howard [Bernstein] and all the other council leaders have identified rightly that transport is an integral part of creating economic growth.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Work on Crossrail in London is proceeding apace.
(8) He has appointed the Manchester city council leader Sir Richard Leese as deputy mayor for business and the economy, and the former immigration minister Beverley Hughes as deputy mayor for policing.
(9) 'Leese says he could manage all public services, which is managerialism to the nth degree' Adam Fineberg, analyst Sitting in his gleaming head office, he looks out on a huge building site where the factory once stood.
(10) Richard Leese, the leader of Manchester city council, will then publish work by his local government innovation taskforce setting out plans to redistribute power across England and reform public services so that they can be tailored better to meet local needs.
(11) Hence a sudden surge of interest in city mayors and super-powered council leaders such as Manchester’s Sir Richard Leese – or Sadiq Khan, if he can succeed Boris Johnson in London – now struggling for creative answers to an era of ever deeper cuts.
(12) As in any politics, you have to present people with solutions, not problems,” says Sir Richard Leese, when I ask after the meeting how he, leader of England’s most strongly Labour city, convinced the chancellor to sign up.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester council.
(14) Later, in a more relaxed age, commercial reprints and introductions to his thought appeared, but no new editions of his works: "This has been a very sensitive topic," said Daniel Leese, author of Mao Cult and an expert on the era at the University of Freiburg.
(15) Richard Leese will publish his Local Government Innovation Task Force report and set out plans for the radical redistribution of power across England and reform of our public services around local place and communities.
(16) Leese noted that unlike other collections of Mao's thought, the Little Red Book covered his later years in power – which saw the purges of the Anti-Rightist Campaign , the Great Famine and Cultural Revolution.
(17) The group claims 15 years of history on its website, but Leese says the original group of eight first met in 1995, making this year their 20th birthday.
(18) But we lack that voice at the moment to say that we also have legitimate demands and legitimate needs.” Lloyd is the narrow favourite to win the mayoralty, with betting odds at 3-1, just ahead of the leader of Manchester city council, Sir Richard Leese, who is 4-1.
(19) Sir Richard Leese, Labour leader of Manchester city council, complained about Balls's remarks.
(20) Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester city council, also said pulling out of the EU would be a “hammer blow for the public sector” and cause “chronic staff shortages, damaging the services that British people depend on”.