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leasing

[lee-zing] / ˈli zɪŋ /
VERB
rent object, residence
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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The tribe’s leaders placed a 10-year moratorium on new oil and gas leasing while they formed their own energy department and developed detailed geological maps of their reservation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

The neoclouds are destined to be “cyclical leasing companies,” according to BCA analyst Noah Weisberger, which implies low valuations for the stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

“In the worst-case scenario they destroy capital,” he said, while in the best case, the neoclouds will be “cyclical leasing companies.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

Anthropic is now leasing the entire facility for more than $1 billion a month.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Eighty percent of its leasing arrangements lost money, often vast amounts.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

I care no more for such a gillflirt," said the Jester, "than I do for thy leasings.

From Waverley 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

"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

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

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



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