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# leased

«leased» in Mova's school dictionary: **rented under a written agreement for a fixed time, such…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb form (past of lease); adjective (leased)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (money, law) Leased means rented under a written agreement for a fixed time, such as a house, car, office or land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leased/#m1)

2) To have leased something out means to have let someone else use it in return for money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leased/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Adult life and money lessons: a leased car, a leased flat, land leased to a farmer. It tells the reader the user pays but does not own it.

### examples

- The family leased a flat for two years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leased/#x1)
- The farmer leased the field to his neighbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leased/#x2)
- Dad drives a leased car from his work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leased/#x3)
- The shop is in a leased building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leased/#x4)
- The council leased the old hall to a dance club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leased/#x5)
- They leased the boat for the summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leased/#x6)

### note

Base: lease (a lease = the agreement). Say «leest». The person who owns and lets is the landlord or lessor; the one who pays is the tenant or lessee.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «leased» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leased/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.