leasing
n. uncountablen. the arrangement where you pay money to use something, like a car or an apartment, for a set time.
n. the action of granting or obtaining the use of property in exchange for rent.
The leasing of the office space cost us a lot.
She signed the leasing agreement for the new apartment last week.
The company's strategy shifted from owning assets to leasing them, which improved their cash flow significantly.
From Middle English lesing, leasung, from Old English lēasung (“leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice, lie, empty talk, frivolity, laxity”), from Proto-West Germanic lausungu, from Proto-Germanic lausungō, equivalent to lease (“to lie”) + -ing. Cognate with Scots lesing (“lying, falsehood”), German Lösung (“breaking away, release, liberation, solution”), Icelandic lausung (“lying, falsehood”).
From Middle English lesing, leesing, lesinge, equivalent to lease (“to tell lies”) + -ing.
From lease (“to rent out”) + -ing.