Easement (Noun)
Meaning 1
(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).
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- The farmer's property included an easement allowing the neighbor to cross his land with cattle to reach the nearby pasture.
- The city purchased an easement from the homeowner to build a new sewer line through her backyard.
- The deed to the property included an easement that gave the adjacent landowner the right to access the shared driveway.
- A dispute arose between the two property owners over the easement that allowed one of them to install a telephone pole on the other's land.
- The developer had to acquire an easement from the government to build a road through the park to reach the new subdivision.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
The act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.