sublet

5 definitions • 7 examples

to allow someone to rent all or part of a house or other building that you are renting from someone else:

Our rental contract states that we are not allowed to sublet the house.

The tenant cannot sublet without the owner's permission and cannot charge more than the regulated rent.

We have to inform the housing association if we sub-let a room.

a room or other part of a building, or all of a building, that is being rented by someone and that they in turn rent to another person:

It was a working-class district of immigrants, many of them living in illegal sublets.

We have a house, a sub-let for the summer, up in the Berkeley hills.

to rent all or part of a rented apartment, house, or other building to someone else

to allow someone to rent all or part of a building that you are renting from someone else:

They have instructed us to sub-let 20,000 sq ft of offices.

to rent all or part of a building from another person who rents it from the owner:

We sublet the offices from the principal tenant.