easement

A legal right or privilege to use another person's property for a specific purpose, such as a right of way, or the act of alleviating something unpleasant.

• 🇩🇪Juristisches Recht oder Privileg, fremdes Eigentum für einen bestimmten Zweck zu nutzen, zum Beispiel ein Wegerecht, oder die Handlung, etwas Unangenehmes zu erleichtern.

1. Legal right of use C1 formal legal

   A legal right to use another person's land for a specific purpose, such as a path or driveway, without owning it.

   • The farmer granted an easement to the neighbor for access to the river.
   • The property deed includes an easement for the utility company to run power lines.
   • They bought the land with an existing easement for a hiking trail.

   🇩🇪Dienstbarkeit

   Synonyme: right of wayservitude

2. Relief or alleviation C2 formal

   The act of making something unpleasant, such as pain or annoyance, less severe or more bearable.

   • The medicine provided some easement from the chronic pain.
   • Her kind words offered easement to his troubled mind.
   • The cool breeze brought easement from the oppressive heat.

   🇩🇪Linderung

   Synonyme: abatementalleviationassuagementeasingmitigationpalliationrelief

• easements plural form
• easements' possessive plural form
• easement's possessive singular form