† lease-mongern.
Obsolete.
One who traffics in leases.
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society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > [noun] > hirer out > one who leases > one who deals in leases
lease-monger1549
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 7th Serm. sig. Eev No horemongers fayth, no leasemongers fayth, no seller of benefices faith.
1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Dv Of late a leasemongar of London laye sycke, And thyncking to dye, his conscience dyd him prycke.
1615 E. Howes Stow's Annales (new ed.) 868/1 Many houses..were all very sudainely inhabited..to the great..aduantage of Landlords and Leasemongers.
1884 Q. Rev. Jan. 117 Either by the landlord or the ‘leasemonger’ farms and tenements were let to the highest bidder.
Derivatives
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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > selling or sale of other specific things
lease-monging1586
office-jobbing?c1670
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 99 If such a one..through good husbandrye, cheuisauncing, leasemonging..shall rise vp to a reuenew of hundredes.
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