Commit and Lease

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

• Property that is leased or rented out or let.
  • synonyms: rental, letting
• A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment.
• The period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect.
  • synonyms: term of a contract

verb

• Let for money.
  • usage: "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"
  • synonyms: rent
• Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services.
  • synonyms: rent, hire, charter
• Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract.
  • usage: "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
  • synonyms: let, rent
• Engage for service under a term of contract.
  • usage: "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome"
  • synonyms: rent, hire, charter, engage, take

• (v.t.) Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
• (v.t.) A demise or letting of lands, tenements or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years or at will or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.
• (v.t.) To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
• (v.i.) To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
• (v.t.) To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out.
• (v.t.) The contract for such letting.

lease is a contract providing for the use of property in which one party (the owner, landlord, or lessor) allows another party (the tenant or lessee) to use the property in exchange for value given to the lessor. May cover either real or personal property. Long-term, noncancelable leases, called capital leases, must be carried on the lessee's balance sheet as liabilities under GAAP. When they are recorded on the lessee's balance sheet, they are said to be capitalized. Short-term, cancelable leases, sometimes called operating leases, do not have to be capitalized.