LEASED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leased mean? 

• LEASED (adjective)
  The adjective LEASED has 1 sense:

1. hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers

  Familiarity information: LEASED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEASED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers

Synonyms:

chartered; hired; leased

Context example:

the chartered buses arrived on time

 Context examples 

I replied, with all due deference to his experience (but with more deference, I am afraid, to his being Dora's father), that perhaps it was a little nonsensical that the Registry of that Court, containing the original wills of all persons leaving effects within the immense province of Canterbury, for three whole centuries, should be an accidental building, never designed for the purpose, leased by the registrars for their Own private emolument, unsafe, not even ascertained to be fire-proof, choked with the important documents it held, and positively, from the roof to the basement, a mercenary speculation of the registrars, who took great fees from the public, and crammed the public's wills away anyhow and anywhere, having no other object than to get rid of them cheaply.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)