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lease-lend
(Level stress.)
Also lease and lend and lend-lease.
[f. lease v.3 + lend v.2]
At first (in 1941) applied to an arrangement whereby sites in British overseas possessions were leased to the United States as bases in exchange for the loan of U.S. destroyers; later in extended uses. Also attrib. and as v.
1941Economist 1 Feb. 139/2 The great reduction in American payments under the ‘Lease and Lend’ Bill. 1941Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. of War 9 July–30 Sept. 48 Mr Harry Hopkins.. in charge of the administration of the Lease-Lend Act, arrives in England again. 1942Ann. Reg. 1941 19 The signing of the Lease and Lend Bill in the United States on March 11..caused great rejoicing in England. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 24 The Canadians argued that by lease-lend the Old Man would get one [a Jeep]. 1943Daily Tel. 23 Oct. 4 Britain's new aircraft-carrier Victorious was ‘Lease-lent’ to the United States. 1944G. B. Shaw Everybody's Pol. What's What? xv. 120 Under the American Lease and Lend arrangements England and Russia are borrowing their war stores from the United States. 1945Reader's Digest July 47/1 Hatch has been particularly successful in ‘breeding up’ the poultry and livestock of the country by lease-lending his pure⁓bred bulls. 1964Daily Tel. 19 May 28/6 To-night 40 Eastbourne policemen were sent to Brighton. They formed part of a ‘lease-lend’ arrangement entered into by Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings police forces to help each other out in case of riots. |