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lessee
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 An individual or a corporation who has the right of use of something of value, gained through a lease agreement with the real owner of the property. 2 The entity to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease. 3 Someone who is ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE original ▪ Why do the Government not act on the huge injustices currently affecting business people, such as original lessee liability? ▪ In the action before Walton J. the landlord was suing the original lessee ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one to whom a lease is given," late 15c., from Anglo-French lesee , Old French lessé , past participle of lesser (Modern French laisser ) "to let, leave" (see lease ).
Usage examples of lessee.
The president of the lessee corporation had refused to testify on the ground that the questions related to his private affairs and to matters cognizable only in the courts wherein they were pending and that the committee avowedly had departed from any inquiry in aid of legislation.
I was the lessee, the accusation of madness was turned on me, but what did I care?
The president of the lessee corporation had refused to testify on the ground that the questions related to his private affairs and to matters cognizable only in the courts wherein they were pending and that the committee avowedly had departed from any inquiry in aid of legislation.
He has persevered with tremendous determination through the maze of owners and lessees and managers and tenants who allowed the structure to fall into such terrible disrepair.
The right to these remedies extends not only to pledgees, lessees, and those having a lien, who exclude their bailor, but to simple bailees, as they have been called, who have no interest in the chattels, no right of detention as against the owner, and neither give nor receive a reward.
The florists and the candy-makers were told only that the lessee, Earl Gurney, was a white supremacist who was suspected of having masterminded violent antiblack and anti-gay activities in Detroit and Chicago.