lessee

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: les=see

CIDE DICTIONARY

lessee, n. [F. laissé, p. p. of laisser. See Lease, v. t.].

 The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lessee, n. (often foll. by of) a person who holds a property by lease.

Derivative

lesseeship n.

Etymology

ME f. AF past part., OF less{eacute} (as LEASE)

THESAURUS

lessee

board-and-roomer, boarder, hirer, homesteader, incumbent, leaseholder, lodger, occupant, occupier, paying guest, renter, resident, roomer, squatter, sublessee, subtenant, tenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, transient, transient guest, underlessee

ROGET THESAURUS

lessee

Possessor

N possessor, holder, occupant, occupier, tenant, person in possession, man in possession, renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee, zemindar, ryot, tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life, owner, proprietor, proprietress, proprietary, impropriator, master, mistress, lord, land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord, lord of the manor, lord paramount, heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord, planter, cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor, grantee, feoffee, releasee, relessee, devisee, legatee, legatary, trustee, holder of the legal estate, mortgagee, right owner, rightful owner, heir presumptive, heir apparent, heiress, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, reversioner, remainderman.

Receiving

N receiving, acquisition, reception, suscipiency, acceptance, admission, recipient, accipient, assignee, devisee, legatee, legatary, grantee, feoffee, donee, releasee, relessee, lessee, receiver, sportulary, stipendiary, beneficiary, pensioner, pensionary, almsman, income, receiving, recipient, suscipient, received, given, secondhand, not given, unbestowed &c (give), (bestow).