What's the difference between lessee and lessor?

Lessee


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lessor selection and the importance of a professional working relationship between lessee and lessor also are explored.
  • (2) If I hadn't had the help of a personal assistant lent to me by a fellow lessee, I don't know how I would have managed it.
  • (3) He added the proposed code made matters worse "since pubcos' wealthy lawyers are using it as a way of binding tenants and lessees into the code of practice that is inadequate, including excluding the option of going free of tie".
  • (4) We have designed a settlement that places the consumers, the owners and lessees in a central, decisive role,” said Elizabeth Cabraser, lead attorney for Volkswagen owners.
  • (5) Mulholland said the Federation of Small Businesses and the Forum for Private Business had been asking for a free-of-tie option for lessees and an open market rent review.
  • (6) However, before agreeing to lease, the potential lessee should investigate the lessor's reputation and financial strength.
  • (7) Specific lease situations are given to illustrate the problems that should be considered by the lessee.

Lessor


Definition:

  • (v. t.) One who leases; the person who lets to farm, or gives a lease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The predominant metabolite of folic acid is the pentaglutamate conjugate (85%), with lessor amounts of the tetraglutamate (approximately 9%) and hexaglutamate (approximately 3%), and trace (less than 2.5%) amounts of di-, tri- and hepta-glutamate conjugates.
  • (2) Lessor selection and the importance of a professional working relationship between lessee and lessor also are explored.
  • (3) Fat-released IR-GIP augmented IRI levels to a lessor degree than either oral glucose or an infusion of porcine GIP.
  • (4) However, before agreeing to lease, the potential lessee should investigate the lessor's reputation and financial strength.
  • (5) Older respondents tended to view the younger healthy profile and to a lessor extent the younger-sick profile more positively than the older profiles, but the young and middle-aged respondents viewed the older profiles more positively than the younger profiles on all three dimensions of the scale.
  • (6) We have also secured major agreements with aircraft lessors and commitments on future investment from Greybull.
  • (7) Any chance of a lessor suspension seemed to be off the table following Rodriguez's comments on Friday night after his game with Trenton, which were said to have infuriated the MLB commissioner, Bud Selig.