What is the exact meaning of lease?

Answer 1

To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean., To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out., To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner., A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation., The contract for such letting., Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.