Easement
WordNet
noun
(1) The act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)
"He asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain"
(2) (law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land)
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Noun
- Legal right to use another person's property
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- The power company has an easement to put their poles along the edge of this land.
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- Relief, easing.
- 1666, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to Chief of Sinners
- This therefore was a great easement to my mind, to wit, that my sin was pardonable,...
- 1666, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to Chief of Sinners
- Shed, a small outbuilding.
- 1888, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Now at that time all the cabinets of easement were full of people, nor did one remain vacant, ...
- 1888, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night