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Sublet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To rent (property one holds by lease) to another.

v. To subcontract (work).

n. Property, especially an apartment, rented by a tenant to another party.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To lease or rent all or part of (a property) (to another person).

v. Simple past tense and past participle of sublet.

n. Property leased by one lessee to another.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another person.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To underlet; let to another person, the party letting being himself lessee or tenant.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person

n. a lease from one lessee to another

Word Usage

"In August 2010, he responded to a Craigslist ad and moved his family into a two-bedroom Little Italy unit above retail shops on a short-term sublet agreement, says the landlord, who asked not to be identified fearing repercussions from her own landlord."

Verb Form

sublets subletting

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

let lease rent letting rental

Variant

subletting

Form

subletting

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

underlet let sublease underlease underset