(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.
Pease
Definition:
(pl. ) of Pea
(n.) A pea.
(n.) A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conjunction with the previous paper (Milne, R. W., Theolis, R., Maurice, R., Pease, R. J., Weech, P. K., Rassart, E., Fruchart, J.-C., Scott, J., and Marcel, Y. L. (1989) J. Biol.
(2) This substitution converts codon 2153 from glutamine (CAA) in apo B100 mRNA to a stop codon (UAA) in apoB48 mRNA (Powell, L. M., Wallis, S. C., Pease, R. J., Edwards, Y. H., Knott, T. J., and Scott, J.
(3) When the millionaire fund manager Nichola Pease told a House of Commons committee last month that a year's maternity leave was "too long", she triggered a row about whether it has now bent too far.
(4) Pease, we must assume, would not have chosen to sound so puffed up if he had known that Lawsky was about to publish his explosive allegations.
(5) The gene was also synthesized from its fragments by using an overlap extension method similar to the procedure as described [Horton, R. M., Hunt, H. D., Ho, S. N., Pullen, J. K. & Pease, L. R. (1989) Gene 77, 61-68].
(6) Surely, after hearing it, the crowd would surge forwards and carry me on their shoulders, from our hotel in Brighton maybe even as far as Westminster (stopping off at the Pease Pottage Services ), where we would nail our Grand Remonstrance to the doors of parliament itself.
(7) To examine whether these results were mediated by the previously demonstrated mechanism of RNA modification (Powell, L. M., Wallis, S. C., Pease, R. J., Edwards, Y. H., Knott, T. J., and Scott, J.
(8) That may have infuriated many women, but Pease's second argument that the "commercial realities" of some City jobs – covering financial markets in different time zones, perhaps – just don't permit flexible working is harder to dismiss.
(9) "In light of your suggestion for John Terry's shirt design," writes Anthony Pease, "Emile Heskey could wear a similar one, only with the arrow on the back and another pointing to his elbow."
(10) Pease and Baker (1948) (74) achieved an early success with the double-embedding method using the plastic "Parlodion" and paraffin wax.
(11) Consider this self-congratulatory statement by the chairman, Sir John Pease, only last week: "In recent weeks, issues have surfaced around governance and behaviour in banking.
(12) It may have hops in it, but it is keg.” When I put this to Bob Pease, CEO of the American Brewer’s Association and key speaker at the Siba conference, he visibly bristles at the implication that keg beer is somehow inferior to cask.
(13) We may not get cask ale, but we have a total appreciation of quality, in any format.” The beer bloggers appear to agree with Pease, often painting Camra as out of touch, and attacking British real ale as “boring brown beer”.