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Definition of "sublease" []

  • To sublet (property). (verb-transitive)
  • To rent (property) under a sublease. (verb-transitive)
  • A lease of property granted by a lessee. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sublease" in a sentence
  • "The amount of sublease space in a market can affect the extent to which landlords can push up rents, because their "direct" space is competing with short-term sublease space that is often much cheaper, and tenants have more bargaining power."
  • "That has pushed the so-called sublease space available up to 1.8 million square feet in the second quarter from about one-third that amount a year earlier."
  • "& Co. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. have put huge chunks of office space on the so-called sublease market, which adds to supply and depresses prices."
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