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Lease

To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.

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Broader term 8

Acquire 76% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Contract 76% connected

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Holding 76% connected

of Hold

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Undertake 76% connected

To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sublease 76% connected

A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sublet 76% connected

of Sublet

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Sublease 76% connected

A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sublet 76% connected

of Sublet

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Derivationally related 10

Charter 74% connected

A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Charter 74% connected

A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Rent 74% connected

of Rend

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Rent 74% connected

of Rend

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Renter 74% connected

One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Renter 74% connected

One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Tenant 74% connected

One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Tenant 74% connected

One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 8

Charter 92% connected

A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Engage 92% connected

To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hire 92% connected

See Here, pron.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Let 92% connected

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Letting 92% connected

of Let

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rent 92% connected

of Rend

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rental 92% connected

A schedule, account, or list of rents, with the names of the tenants, etc.; a rent roll.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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