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say it: EEZ-muhnt
easement is a noun meaning "(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)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
(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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the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)
“he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for easement come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.