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Jan Sweetnam, Federal Realty’s chief investment officer and executive vice president, touted the new tenants and the successful leasing activity at One Santana West.—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025 New Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is already implementing the same playbook, issuing orders to ramp up oil and gas leasing, weaken migratory bird protections and consider changes to national monuments boundaries for the sake of increasing fossil fuel production.—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025 And in 2024, the government plans to hold its next major leasing round, which could see the deployment of an additional 7 GW of offshore wind capacity.—Gordon Feller, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2025 The order, which Mr. Trump signed in the Oval Office on Monday night, would halt all leasing of federal lands and waters for new wind farms pending a fresh government review of the industry.—Brad Plumer, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for leasing
Word History
Etymology
Middle English lesing, from Old English lēasung, from lēasian to lie, from lēas false
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of leasing was
before the 12th century
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