: to lease or rent all or part of a leased or rented property
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Examples of sublet in a Sentence
She sublet her apartment to a student for the summer.
He asked his landlord if he could sublet.
The agency sublets office space from a law firm in the building.
I need someone to sublet my apartment for the summer.
Recent Examples of sublet from the Web
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Frazer sublets space from Harbor Designs and Manufacturing, a firm that works with innovative companies and individuals to develop new products.
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Besides, the $750,000 Upper East Side apartment the family shared before Giuliani’s election in 1993 is sublet through the end of the year.
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Then Duke suddenly eloped with Michael Tell, a rock promoter who was subletting her apartment, and remained married to him for 13 days.
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Tenants and condo owners who can’t sublet: When renters register as hosts, the city notifies their building owner.
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The chain has been reconfiguring another 200 stores, with the idea of subletting or selling space to outside companies.
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Hosts and others said that’s because those areas have a higher concentration of renters who didn’t want to register, because that process involves the city contacting their landlord — and subletting may violate their leases.
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Since leaving Cairo in 2014, Ashour has sublet apartments on 92nd and Lexington, 53rd and Seventh Avenue, 66th and Columbus and 58th and 10th Avenue.
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People often sublet parts of their apartments, cordoning areas off with sheets.
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First Known Use of sublet
1766
: property and especially housing obtained by or available through a sublease
Examples of sublet in a Sentence
I'm looking for a sublet since I'm only going to be here for the summer.
Recent Examples of sublet from the Web
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Elsewhere in the Capitol, a Senate committee got a chance to ask questions of Scott Pruitt, the energy-industry sublet now in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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First, in Wisconsin, the state legislature, which is chock-full of extraction industry sublets, is about to pass something called the Industrial Acid Mining Bill, which is every bit as horrible as its name implies.
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But there’s little question that the country’s real owners have abandoned all discretion in the use of their governmental sublets.
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The grant helped defray airfare, her summer sublet and other expenses.
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On this issue, your colleagues and good friends in the Senate are bought and paid-for sublets.
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Okin, his brother-in-law Adam Bostwick, and Stefan Was will direct their attention to the future of Polpetta at Porco, which is a culinary sublet in Porco Lounge and Tiki Room.
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Like many young actors, Erik Heitz, who moved to New York in 2011, has largely lived in sublets.
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In December, Barclays sublet office space in London’s Canary Wharf district to the government, saving about 35 million pounds ($45 million) a year.
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First Known Use of sublet
1906
SUBLET Defined for English Language Learners
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: to allow someone to use (an apartment, house, etc., that you are renting) for a period of time in return for payment
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: to use (an apartment, house, etc., that is rented by someone) in return for payment
Law Dictionary
: to lease all or part of a leased property
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