A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent or other form of payment, A contract transferring a right to the possession and enjoyment of real property for life or for a definite period of time or at will, usually made in consideration of a periodical compensation called rent, in modern times usually payable in money, but sometimes in a share of the produce, and in former times frequently in services, The written instrument by which a leasehold estate is created, verb_ hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services, engage for service under a term of contract, let for money, transitive verb_ To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; ; -- sometimes with out, To hold under a lease; to take lease of, To get or hold by such a contract, intransitive verb_ obsolete To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean, transitive verb_ To hold under a lease; to take lease of, To get or hold by such a contract, To grant use or occupation of under the terms of a contract