Word Meanings - LEASEHOLD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Held by lease.

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• LEASE
  To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. Dryden.
• LEASEHOLD
  Held by lease.
• LEASEHOLDER
  A tenant under a lease. -- Lease"hold`ing, a. & n.
• LEASER
  One who leases or gleans. Swift.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• OVERPLEASE
  To please excessively.
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• TIMEPLEASER
  One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.
• RELEASEMENT
  The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton.
• MEN-PLEASER
  One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.
• DISPLEASER
  One who displeases.
• RELEASEE
  One to whom a release is given.
• PLEASED
  Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n.
• SUPERPLEASE
  To please exceedingly. B. Jonson.
• RELEASER
  One who releases, or sets free.
• PLEASEMAN
  An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. Shak.
• PLEASE
  1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. Milton. 2. To have or take
• UNDERLEASE
  A lease granted by a tenant or lessee; especially, a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease. Burrill.
• DISPLEASEDNESS
  Displeasure. South.
• DISPLEASE
  pref. des- + plaisir to please. See Please, and cf. 1. To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger,