asset vs lease

asset

noun
  • Coordinate term: liability 

  • A woman's breasts or buttocks or a man's genitalia. 

  • Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused. 

  • An intelligence asset. 

  • A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows. 

  • Any item recorded on the left-hand side of a balance sheet. 

lease

noun
  • The document containing such a contract or deed. 

  • An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold. 

  • An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat. 

  • The period of such an interest. 

  • An open pasture or common. 

  • The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted. 

  • The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom. 

verb
  • To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate. 

  • To glean. 

  • To glean, gather up leavings. 

  • To release; let go; unloose. 

  • To grant a lease as a landlord; to let. 

  • To gather. 

  • To pick, select, pick out; to pick up. 

  • To hold a lease as a tenant. 

How often have the words asset and lease occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )