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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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Mama, Sid and I moved into a sublet and eventually into a 19-room Tudor-style mansion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025

In August, Moss decided that he would sublet his Brooklyn apartment and move to Oklahoma for the month leading up to the execution so that he could visit the prison more easily.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024

Unscrupulous private landlords may lease public plots from Caltrans, then illegally sublet pieces of them at inflated rents to immigrant businesses whose owners are uninsured.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2023

In their luxurious sublet in Ann Arbor, Mia had taken various pieces of her hosts’ furniture apart and arranged the components—bolts as thick as her finger, unvarnished crossbeams, disembodied feet—into animals.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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