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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lessee
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 for the arrears of rent.
▪ It was held that the liability of the original lessee was not extinguished by the partial surrender.
▪ The liability of the original lessee was, and remained, a primary liability.
▪ It was that liability for which the original lessee was concurrently liable.
▪ The original lessee could then recover from the assignee under the indemnity.
▪ The original lessee was not merely a guarantor or surety.
▪ He further accepts that the obligations of the original lessee and an assignee are not joint.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the end of the lease term, the residual value of the asset will belong to the lessee.
▪ It was held that the liability of the original lessee was not extinguished by the partial surrender.
▪ The lessee claimed that the release of the surety also released the lessee from liability.
▪ The lessor then purchases the asset and leases it to the lessee.
▪ The liability of the original lessee was, and remained, a primary liability.
▪ Whitbread said the lessees of its pubs can keep buying its beer but have no obligation to do so.
▪ Why do the Government not act on the huge injustices currently affecting business people, such as original lessee liability?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lessee

Lessee \Les*see"\ (l[e^]s*s[=e]"), n. [F. laiss['e], p. p. of laisser. See Lease, v. t.] (Law) The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.
--Blackstone.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lessee

"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).

Wiktionary
lessee

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 allowed to use a house, building, land etc. for a period of time in return for payment to the owner. Etymology 2

vb. (eye dialect of let's see English)

WordNet
lessee

n. a tenant who holds a lease [syn: leaseholder]

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.