subletting

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Verb

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subletting

  1. present participle and gerund of sublet

Noun

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subletting (plural sublettings)

  1. (property law, real estate) Synonym of sublease.
    Synonyms: sublease, underlease, subtenancy, undertenancy, underletting, (informal) sublet, underlet
    • 1846, Thomas Campbell Foster, Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland, page 270:
      [] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants.