demise
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The grant of property by lease.
The demise took in the flat but expressly excluded the roof space above it.
Business verb
To grant occupation of property to another by lease.
The freeholder agreed to demise the upper floors to the serviced-office operator on a fifteen-year term.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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