leasing
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1 renting an asset (n.) B2 Upper Intermediatethe act of renting a car, equipment, or building for a specific period of time.
the process of granting or obtaining use of an asset under a lease agreement. Uncountable in its general sense; countable when referring to specific instances.
ExampleThe company decided that leasing a fleet of cars was cheaper than buying them.
ExampleThe financial director argued that leasing the manufacturing equipment would preserve capital for the upcoming expansion into the European market.
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2 a lie (n.) C2 Proficiency Archaic Literaryan old word for a lie or the act of telling lies.
a falsehood or the act of lying. This sense is restricted to historical or literary contexts.
ExampleThe old poem spoke of a man whose mouth was full of leasing and deceit.
ExampleThe scholar noted that in the King James Bible, the term 'leasing' is employed to denote the spread of wicked falsehoods.
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.