English edit

Noun edit

improving lease (plural improving leases)

  1. (law, Scotland, historical) An extended lease to induce the tenant to make improvements to the premises.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for improving lease”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)