lease

Definition

  • noun: a legal agreement that lets someone use a car, house, etc., for a period of time in return for payment
  • noun: a contract by which one conveys real estate, equipment, or facilities for a specified term and for a specified rent
  • verb: to use (something) for a period of time in return for payment
  • verb: to grant by lease
  • synonyms: glean, let, demise

Examples

  • After they made the movie, the book got 'a new lease on life'. [=the book became newly popular]

  • The 'lease' expires next month. = The 'lease' runs out next month.

  • The band has given this style of music 'a new lease on life'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Sit that woman down, sir! You can sit down. Mr. Plainview! Please, Mr. Plainview. No, Mr. Plainview! No, where are you going? -I don't need the lease. Thank you. -But we need you. Too much confusion. Thank you for your time. No, no, there's no confusion. I wouldn't take the lease (..)
    2007 There Will Be Blood
  • (..) and to see their work. I don't lose my tools in the hole and spend months fishing for them. I don't botch the cementing off and let water in the hole and ruin the whole lease. I'm a family man. I run a family business. This is my son and my partner, H.W. Plainview. We offer you the bond of family (..)
    2007 There Will Be Blood