leasing

Verb

let for money
hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
grant use or occupation of under a term of contract
- "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
engage for service under a term of contract
present participle of lease (“to tell lies”)
present participle and gerund of lease

Noun

Falsehoods or deceitful talk; lies (archaic).
A lie; the act of lying, falsehood.
gerund of lease

Examples

Don’t fall for his LEASING about having no good tiles; he’s probably setting up a bingo!

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

charter, engage, hire, lease, let, rent, take

Scrabble Score: 8

leasing: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
leasing: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
leasing: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

leasing: valid Words With Friends Word