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sublet

[suhb-let, suhb-let, suhb-let] / sʌbˈlɛt, ˈsʌbˌlɛt, sʌbˈlɛt /


VERB
farm out
Synonyms


VERB
lease
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK




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Mastrangelo ultimately found a sublet: She will be spending $2,520 for a bedroom and private bath in a woman’s house in the tony neighborhood of Russian Hill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Northern California, where she grew up, offers less hectic living, with family nearby and a proper house rather than an illegal basement sublet.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

The BBC contacted the businessman who rented the property, who says he had sublet it to a builder.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

On the one hand, you did promise working internet when you agreed to sublet to them.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025

He’d come back to Chicago over his summer break from Harvard, this time skipping the sublet and moving directly into my apartment on Euclid Avenue.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Listings Projects, a classified newsletter featuring sublets in New York City, Los Angeles and others creative hubs , is one of the systems that seems poised to grow.

From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2023

She was inspired by Sam Farrazaino who established Equinox Studios, converting a 30,000-square-foot former factory to sublets for working artisans in Seattle’s Georgetown in 2006.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

She sublets the apartment, and, as is the way of folks with less money, maybe especially queer friends, ends up living there with two other people.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2022

For companies seeking offices, sublets often provide a shorter lease at a steep discount to market prices.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2020

So he lets to a gentleman who sublets the flats, you see?

From A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George

Nicholas Razo, assistant city manager, said in a phone interview that the city had previously raised concerns with the league about subletting and took action after learning the practice was continuing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

By subletting to him at a lower-than-market rent, you may be limiting some tax deductions.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026

One of the men told us they were subletting and admitted there was no HMO licence - as the local authority register confirmed.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2025

This can protect you whether you’re a homeowner renting out a spare room or a renter subletting from someone else.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2025

He was living in Hyde Park, subletting an apartment from a friend.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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