lease

«lease» in Mova's school dictionary: a written agreement to rent a house or land for a time — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (leases); verb (leases, leased, leasing); old use: to glean

meaning for a pupil

1) A lease is a written agreement to rent a house or land for a time. tree →

2) To lease is to rent something under such an agreement. tree →

3) (old use, in rhymes) To go a-leasing is to go gleaning, picking up the corn left in the fields after harvest. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old rhymes «went a-leasing» means gathering the leftover grain in the fields; in modern life a family may lease a flat

examples

• We signed a lease for the flat. tree →
• They leased a field for their sheep. tree →
• Titty Mouse went a-leasing in the field. tree →
• Tatty Mouse went a-leasing too. tree →

note

nothing for maths. In the tales «lease» is not about renting; it belongs to the old rhyme about gleaning.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «lease» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.