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leasing
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English
Etymology 1
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈliːzɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: leas‧ing
Noun
leasing (plural leasings)
- (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.
Etymology 2
From Middle English lesing, leesing, lesinge, equivalent to lease (“to tell lies”) + -ing.
Verb
leasing
- present participle of lease (“to tell lies”)
Etymology 3
From lease (“to rent out”) + -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈliːsɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːsɪŋ
- Hyphenation: leas‧ing
Verb
leasing
- present participle and gerund of lease
Noun
leasing (countable and uncountable, plural leasings)
Derived terms
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Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
leasing
- leasing (act of leasing something, especially if long-term)
Declension
Synonyms
- liisaus
- pitkäaikainen vuokraus
- pitkäaikaisvuokraus
- vuokraus
Derived terms
- leasingauto
- leasingpalvelu
- leasing-palvelu
- leasing-sopimus
- leasingsopimus
- leasingyhtiö
Further reading
- “leasing”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (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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French
Pronunciation
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)
Noun
leasing m (plural leasings)
Further reading
- “leasing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
leasing m (definite singular leasingen, indefinite plural leasinger, definite plural leasingene)
Polish
Etymology
Pseudo-anglicism, derived from leasing.
Pronunciation
Noun
leasing m inan (related adjective leasingowy)
- lease (contract granting use or occupation of property)
Declension
Declension of leasing
Derived terms
nouns
- leasingobiorca
- leasingodawca
verb
- leasingować impf
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Romanian
Etymology
Noun
leasing n (uncountable)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
leasing m (plural leasings)
Usage notes
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.
Further reading
- “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
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Swedish
Etymology
Noun
leasing c
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