leasing

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːsɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: leas‧ing

From Middle English lesing, leasung, from Old English lēasung (“leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice, lie, empty talk, frivolity, laxity”), from lēasian (“to lie”), from lēas (“false, faithless, untruthful, deceitful, lax, vain, worthless”). Cognate with Scots lesing (“lying”). More at lease.

leasing (plural leasings)

1. (archaic) A lie; the act of lying, falsehood.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

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

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX:

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

From lease.

leasing

1. present participle of lease

leasing (countable and uncountable, plural leasings)

1. gerund of lease

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

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

From English

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʲi.zink/

leasing m inan

1. lease

• leasingowy, leasingować

leasing m (plural leasings)

1. leasing

leasing

1. leasing