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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lease/#m1)

2) To lease is to rent something under such an agreement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lease/#m2)

3) (old use, in rhymes) To go a-leasing is to go gleaning, picking up the corn left in the fields after harvest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lease/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lease/#x1)
- They leased a field for their sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lease/#x2)
- Titty Mouse went a-leasing in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lease/#x3)
- Tatty Mouse went a-leasing too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lease/#x4)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lease/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.