Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The fact or condition of holding property by lease.
  • noun Property held by lease.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tenure by lease; real estate held under a lease.
  • Held by lease: as, a leasehold tenement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Held by lease.
  • noun A tenure by lease; specifically, land held as personalty under a lease for years.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The tenure of property held by a lessee under a lease

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun land or property held under a lease

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Examples

  • "The redistribution land will be provided under a long-term leasehold system."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • All land-holders would operate under a long-term leasehold system.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • It is the distortion of power and the assumption that we all have unlimited spheres of power belonging to ourselves that is the great disease and the root of our trouble and because the human race has distorted its use of power by treating it as ultimate and not as leasehold from the Creator.

    Where Are We Going? 1971

  • "JCP owns substantial core and non-core fee and long-term leasehold real estate interests."

    unknown title 2011

  • In 2001 when I researching the purchase of my flat in the East End, I was presented with a short term leasehold property in Leicester Square.

    Ask MetaFilter 2010

  • The county would sell a long-term leasehold on the Mesa County Justice Center to Wells Fargo Bank for an amount between $17.5 million and $22 million, giving the bank exclusive use of the property.

    GJSentinel.com tim.harty@gjsentinel.com 2010

  • Sources of short term leasehold properties, Central London?

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  • The county would sell a long-term leasehold on the Mesa County Justice Center to Wells Fargo Bank for an amount between $17.5 million and $22 million, giving the bank exclusive use of the property.

    GJSentinel.com tim.harty@gjsentinel.com 2010

  • I'm interested in gaining additional exposure to London real estate, and have been trying to find reliable sources of data on short term leasehold properties.

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  • I paid off my mortgage a couple of months ago and since I've been looking for sources of data on short term leasehold property, but without much luck.

    Ask MetaFilter 2010

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