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sublet

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


VERB
farm out
Synonyms


VERB
lease
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK




Example Sentences

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“When you sublet your judgment about facts and morals to a rigid ideology, you really surrender your ability to make real moral judgments, and also to make real factual judgments.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

At one point, he sublet his bedroom in his Brooklyn apartment to a stranger to cover the cost of rent — something to which Alejandro also resorts in “Problemista.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

It had a basement she thought she could sublet for extra income.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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

Positive absorption indicates that more space was leased than was newly built or put on the market through sublets.

From Reuters ● Aug. 1, 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

If he sublets, I shan't have the same control.

From Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

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

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

A spokesperson told the BBC the company was clear with caravan owners that "there are no guarantees" about subletting income.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024

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

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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