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.

• 🇪🇸Derecho o privilegio legal de usar la propiedad ajena para un fin determinado, como el paso, o la acción de aliviar algo molesto.

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.

   🇪🇸Servidumbre (derecho de uso)

   Sinónimos: 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.

   🇪🇸alivio

   Sinónimos: abatementalleviationassuagementeasingmitigationpalliationrelief

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