re-lease

re-lease
\(ˈ)rē+\ transitive verb
Etymology: re- + lease
: to lease again : grant a new lease of

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/ree lees"/, v., re-leased, re-leasing, n.
v.t.
1. to lease again.
2. Law. to make over (land, property, etc.), as to another.
n.
3. a contract for re-leasing land or property.
4. the land or property re-leased.
[1820-30; RE- + LEASE]

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re|lease «rih LEES», verb, -leased, -leas|ing, noun.
–v.t.
1. to let go: »

Release the catch and the box will open.

2. to let loose; set free: »

She released him from his promise.

3. to relieve: »

The nurse will be released from duty at seven o'clock. Release me from this life, From this intolerable agony! (Robert Southey).

 See syn. under dismiss. (Cf. ↑dismiss)
4. a) to give up (as a legal right or claim). b) to make over to another (property or interest).
5. to permit to be published, shown, sold, or otherwise distributed: »

to release a news dispatch, to release a motion picture.

6. Obsolete. to pardon.
–n.
1. the act of letting go; setting free: »

the release of strain from an engine. The end of the war brought the release of the prisoners.

2. freedom; relief: »

This medicine will give you a release from pain.

3. a part of a machine that sets other parts free to move: »

Press the release and the turntable will begin to turn.

4. a) the legal surrender, such as of a right or estate, to another. b) the document that does this.
5. permission for publication, exhibition, sale, or other form of distribution: »

Now in the final stages of editing, the two-hour picture is scheduled for midsummer release (Newsweek).

6. a) an article, statement, or the like, distributed for publication: »

a news release.

b) a phonograph record, motion picture, or other mechanical recording similarly released: »

One of the most satisfying of the recent releases [is] his “Blues in Orbit” (Punch).

7. Phonetics. the act or fact of breaking the closure in the articulation of a stop, as b, t, and k sounds.
8. Obsolete. a pardon.
╂[< Old French relaissier < Latin relaxāre. See etym. of doublet relax. (Cf. ↑relax)]
Synonym Study transitive verb. 2 Release, free mean to set loose from something that holds back or keeps confined. Release suggests relaxing the hold on the person or thing: »

He released the brakes of the truck.

Free suggests removing or unfastening whatever is holding back: »

He freed the bird from the cage.

re-lease «ree LEES», transitive verb, -leased, -leas|ing.
to lease again.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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