- present participle of lease.
leasing
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The leasing agents didn’t respond to my requests for comment.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
That’s why Apple will be leaning on leasing, trade-ins and carrier subsidies to limit the impact of its prices on sales, JPMorgan’s Samik Chatterjee said in a client note.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Customers in the United States will be able to pay for new phones, iPads, Macs and Apple Watches in monthly installments through Apple Upgrade, a leasing program offered with the buy-now-pay-later giant Klarna.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Amy was a philanthropist and renowned gardener who had bonded with her father over the art of picking produce; Diane worked in the office doing residential leasing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Even as convict leasing faded away, strategic forms of exploitation and repression emerged anew.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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"Sir Knight," saith Messire Gawain, "Needs must the King miscarry that setteth aside the counsel of his good knights for the leasings of a traitor."
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
For to what purpose should an Historiographer make leasings, if history be a report of plaine trueth?
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt
This anecdote led to a long discussion of All those idle thoughts and fantasies, Devices, dreams, opinions unsound, Shows, visions, soothsays, and prophecies, And all that feigned is, as leasings, tales, and lies.
From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Sir Walter Scott
They do now but cry: Let us go and make sacrifice to our God, let them be oppressed by labor and exercised that they attend not to leasings.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
He hates fowle leasings, and vile flatterie, Two filthie blots in noble gentrie; And lothefull idlenes he doth detest, The canker worme of everie gentle brest.
From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church