leasing

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːzɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: leas‧ing

leasing (plural leasings)

1. (archaic) A lie; the act of lying, falsehood.
   • c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “[Passus II]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...], London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:

     fy on þi lawe / For al by lesynges þow lyuest · and lecherouse werkes.

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   • c. 1515–1516, John Skelton, 'Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568:

     Then ren they with leſinges, and blow them about,
     With, ‘He wrate ſuche a bil withouten dout’,
     With, ‘I can tel you what ſuch a man ſaid,
     And you knew all ye would be ill apayd’.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Shewes, visions, sooth-sayes, and prophesies; / And all that fained is, as leasings, tales, and lies.

From Middle English lesing, leesing, lesinge, equivalent to lease (“to tell lies”) +‎ -ing.

leasing

1. present participle of lease (“to tell lies”)

From lease (“to rent out”) +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːsɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -iːsɪŋ
• Hyphenation: leas‧ing

leasing

1. present participle and gerund of lease

leasing (countable and uncountable, plural leasings)

1. gerund of lease

• body leasing
• wet-leasing

• → Spanish: leasing
• → Finnish: leasing
• → Polish: leasing
• → Swedish: leasing

• Eaglins, Neglias, Sinegal, gas line, lignase, linages, sealing

Unadapted borrowing from English leasing

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːsiŋ/, [ˈliːs̠iŋ]
• Rhymes: -iːsiŋ

leasing

1. leasing (act of leasing something, especially if long-term)

• liisaus
• pitkäaikainen vuokraus
• pitkäaikaisvuokraus
• vuokraus

• “leasing”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

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leasing m (plural leasings)

1. leasing

• “leasing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English leasing.

leasing m (definite singular leasingen, indefinite plural leasinger, definite plural leasingene)

1. leasing

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from leasing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.ziŋk/

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• Rhymes: -iziŋk
• Syllabification: lea‧sing

leasing m inan (related adjective leasingowy)

1. lease (contract granting use or occupation of property)

• leasing in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• leasing in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English leasing.

leasing n (uncountable)

1. leasing

Unadapted borrowing from English leasing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlisin/ [ˈli.sĩn]
• Rhymes: -isin

leasing m (plural leasings)

1. leasing

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “leasing”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from English leasing.

leasing c

1. leasing

• leasa

• leasing in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• leasing in Svensk ordbok (SO)