leases
LEES-iz/ˈliːsɪz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of lease.
The city leases the old warehouse to a theater group for a dollar a year.
The office router leases each new laptop a temporary IP address when it joins the network.
Note
The verb faces either way across a rental: an owner leases a building to a tenant, while in everyday speech a tenant leases it from the owner. The preposition settles which side is meant. Networks borrow the same two-way pattern: a router leases a laptop an address, and the laptop leases the address it receives.
leases is a form of lease
lease, verb: To rent property from its owner under a lease, as the tenant. Full entry
- Spelling
- lease → leases: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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