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sublet

[ verb suhb-let; noun suhb-let, suhb-let ]

verb (used with object)

, sub·let, sub·let·ting.
  1. to sublease.
  2. to let under a subcontract:

    to sublet work.



noun

  1. a sublease.
  2. a property obtained by subleasing, as an apartment.

sublet

verb

  1. to grant a sublease of (property)
  2. to let out (work, etc) under a subcontract


noun

  1. informal.
    a sublease

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sublet1

First recorded in 1760–70; sub- + let 1

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Example Sentences

Apparently they had a difficult time keeping tenants to sublet the back bedroom of the apartment, according to neighbor testimony.

My personal life was not so glossy—I made hardly any money, ate Snickers bars for dinner, and lived in a tiny sublet.

We had both just graduated from college, and soon afterward he sublet a room in my apartment for eight months.

As the lessee may assign or sublet unless forbidden, so may the lessor part with his interest in the leased premises.

With the consent of the landlord, Molineux, Cayron sublet two apartments over his shop to his neighbor.

It is let out altogether; the principal tenants divide it into small lots, and sublet these to the peasants.

The job of wiping out these troublesome whites had been sublet, and they wasted no further anxiety over the affair.

It is dangerous in the hands of a person not used to handling it and the work should be sublet.

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