Recent Examples on the WebOn his first day in the White House, Biden revoked a permit that his predecessor, Trump, had granted to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline and placed a temporary moratorium on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic.—Samantha Delouya, CNN, 11 June 2024 Over the past few months, Tesla has amped up its leasing push amid weak Q1 financial results and layoffs.—Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 4 June 2024 The Biden administration is also ending new coal leasing on public lands in the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming, per WyoFile’s Dustin Bleizeffer.—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024 In the two decades after 1999, the amount of revenue raised through the leasing of land rights grew more than 120-fold.—Yuen Yuen Ang, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021 See all Example Sentences for leasing
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English lesing, from Old English lēasung, from lēasian to lie, from lēas false
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of leasing was
before the 12th century
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