lease
/liːs/noun
उच्चारण लीस
पट्टा, लीज़
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Asked in previous papers
as idiom
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[C]
a legal agreement that allows you to use a building, piece of equipment or land for a period of time, usually in return for rent
पट्टा, लीज़
- a 99-year lease
- The restaurant has signed a ten-year lease for the ground floor of the building.
- The shopkeeper renewed the lease for another five years.
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- Under the lease, the tenant must pay rent on the first of every month.
- The school's lease on the playground ends next March.
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[T] ~ sth (to sb) | ~ sth (from sb)
to use or let somebody use something, especially property or equipment, in exchange for rent
पट्टे पर देना या लेना
- They leased the shop for five years.
- The government leased the land to a private company for fifty years.
- The company leased three floors of the tower for its new office.
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- Farmers can lease equipment from the cooperative.
- She leased her flat to a young doctor.
¶Idioms 1
a new lease of life / a new lease on life
a chance to live longer or be happier, more active or more successful than before; (of a thing) a chance to be used for longer
नया जीवन, नई जान, नई ऊर्जा
- After the operation, he felt he had been given a new lease of life.
- A fresh coat of paint gave the old school building a new lease of life.
“Collocations, idioms and sayings
A new lease of life (British) or on life (American): a chance to live longer or be successful again ('The repairs gave the old bus a new lease of life').
Idiom अक्सर पूछा जाता है: a new lease of life (British) या on life (American): लंबे समय तक जीने या फिर सफल होने का अवसर, नया जीवन ('The repairs gave the old bus a new lease of life')।
✓In the exam
One-word substitution
The owner who gives property on lease is the lessor; the person who takes it the lessee (also tenant).
संपत्ति पट्टे पर देने वाला मालिक lessor (पट्टादाता); लेने वाला lessee (पट्टेदार, tenant भी)।