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lease

 (lēs)
n.
1. A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent or other form of payment.
2. The term or duration of such a contract.
tr.v. leased, leas·ing, leas·es
1. To grant use or occupation of under the terms of a contract.
2. To get or hold by such a contract.
Idiom:
a new lease on life
An opportunity to improve one's circumstances or outlook.

[Middle English les, from Anglo-Norman, from lesser, to lease, variant of Old French laissier, to let go, from Latin laxāre, to loosen, from laxus, loose; see slēg- in Indo-European roots.]

leas′a·ble adj.
leas′er n.
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Leasing revenues for the period increased by 17 percent to PHP3.9 billion from PHP3.3 billion in the prior year period, driven by the increase in leasable spaces from malls.
KPPI plans to use the net proceeds to diversify its asset base and expand its office leasing portfolio with the acquisition of about 3,500 square meters of leasable space.
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The entire development will comprise up to 290,000sq m of leasable space, which will offer various logistics size formats, including box and flex-log while also providing an easy solution of moving to larger units as tenant businesses expand.
According to a tabulation on WikiPedia, it will be the largest mall in the world by total area, and the second largest measured by leasable commercial space.
In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, MRSGI said the development will consist of a department store and supermarket with one movie theater and with leasable spaces.
The total supply of gross leasable area within retail malls now tops 1.4 million square metres, of which almost 800,000 sq m is provided in the country's five largest 'super-regional' malls.
The company said this second phase, with a total leasable area of around 13,600 square metres, will consist of one building 15 stories high.
Across the assets of Emaar Malls -- which include Dubai Mall, Dubai Marina Mall and Souk Al Bahar -- gross leasable area occupancy levels were at 95 per cent.
Around 45,000m[sup.2] of gross leasable land will have been added to the Al Jimi Mall in Al Ain when the renovated site opens for business in Q4 2018.
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