leaseback
nounEtymology From lease + back.
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Business, Finance A property transaction where a party sells something, then leases it from the purchaser. The seller is released from tax, depreciation, and maintenance costs, and the buyer is guaranteed an income from the property.
- The operator has since sold ten locomotives […] which were subsequently sold on to GB Railfreight (which then sold them to Beacon Rail on a leaseback deal), as well as four to GBRf outright […].2019 November 6, “Fleet news”, in Rail, page 30:
- Synonyms
- sale and leaseback, sale-leaseback