| 单词 |
lessee |
| 释义 |
lessee|lɛˈsiː|
Also 6–7 leas(s)ee, 7 lesse.
[a. AF. lessee, OF. lessé, pa. pple. of lesser, lessier, mod.F. laisser to leave: see lease v.3 and -ee.]
A person to whom a lease is granted; a tenant under a lease.
[a1481Littleton Inst. §57 Il y ad le Feoffor, & le Feoffee, le Donor & le Donee, le Lessor & le Lessee.] 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 9 §2 Lessees..[shall] fynde goode and suffycient suertie. 1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 8 The lessees..shall defalke, abate, and reteine..as muche of the rentes dewe to the lessours, as thei can proue, to haue expended on the same pauinge. 1587Harrison England ii. xii. (1877) i. 242 If the leassee be thought to be worth an hundred pounds. 1614W. B. Philospher's Banquet (ed. 2) 260 The Lesse most leaudly the rent did retaine. 1683Pettus Fleta Min. ii. 17 The Leasees of our Society did work the Mines of Consumlock and Talibont. 1817W. Selwyn Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1209 If executrix of lessee for years of a rectory take husband, the husband and wife may [etc.]. 1884Yates Recoll. I. v. 187 The lessee..placed my name on his free list, and for years I went to his theatre once or twice a week.
Hence leˈsseeship, the condition or position of a lessee.
1812Holt in Examiner 28 Dec. 831/2 That lesseeship was worth nothing. 1884Yates Recoll. I. v. 186 Mr. E. T. Smith..in his time entered on theatrical lesseeship on a large and varied scale. |
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