The action of hire, v.; engaging a person or thing for hire; letting out on hire.

The action of leasing something to or from a person; an instance of this. Cf. letting out n. (a) at compounds 1a.

The action or process of leasing something to a person.

the action or practice of putting out to fee-farm.

The action of letting or taking at a rent. Also with out.

Civil Law and Scots Law. The action of hiring or letting property or services. Frequently in collocation with conduction, n. Now only in contract o…

occasionally The action of hiring or letting.

The fact or process of renting or hiring out property, etc. (rent, v.2 2). Frequently for (also on) rental.

A letting for hire or rent. (The sense in the first quot. is doubtful.)

Misreading (as lettement, understood to mean ‘letting’) in N.E.D. (1902) of lottement in T. Littleton Tenures (1574) (new ed.) f. 52 (compare quot…