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Leased vs Likened - What's the difference?

leased | likened |

As verbs the difference between leased and likened

is that leased is (lease) while likened is (liken).

As an adjective leased

is transferred under the terms of a lease.

leased

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lease)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • Transferred under the terms of a lease.
  • * 1880 , , page 327 [http://google.com/books?id=lTU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA327&dq=leased]:
    • The resemblance borne by such a land carriage to a ship put under charter-party is, perhaps, closer where the entire business of one railway company, with its tracks, rolling-stock, equipments, and goodwill become leased for a certain term to another company.

    Derived terms

    * leased access * leased facility * leased fee * leased line

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    likened

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (liken)

    • liken

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan
    • , volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}

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