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  • noun Plural form of sublet.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sublet.

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Examples

  • In D.C., the small mark-to-market comes from our assets in Maryland, and we took back 23 -- 21,000 square feet at 1333 New Hampshire last month -- last quarter when we took back space from Akin Gump, and we inherited from short-term sublets until we're feeling the impact of those sublets.

    unknown title 2011

  • (The legalities of these short-term sublets are a gray area that AirBnB. com doesn't concern itself with.)

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • Craigslist, long a source of cheap (if not always legal) short-term sublets, and

    NYT > Travel 2008

  • The move-in date kept getting pushed back, while the couple hopped between sublets and family and friends waiting for their new place to be ready.

    Switch to Rentals Strands Would-Be Buyers Laura Kusisto 2012

  • "Airbnb started with this notion of air beds and breakfasts, and today there are vacation homes and sublets and parking spaces and quirky things like treehouses," he said.

    Airbnb Is Latest Start-Up to Secure $1 Billion Valuation Geoffrey A. Fowler 2011

  • I was drifting back and forth between the Midwest and the West Coast, and dragging my very large sheepdog with me along the way, and I was living in sublets and house-sitting and breaking apartment leases, and I actually tried to buy farmhouses in Nebraska twice.

    Searching For A Perfect Life 'In That House' 2010

  • Official estimates on sublets vary from 3% to 10% but no proper counting has been done and my instinct says that as a family becomes wealthier they are not likely to hand their house back.

    Housing 2 ( Sub Letting ) Newmania 2008

  • And then by summer 1977 it was time to come back to NYC - and once more I sought out sublets.

    Chris Durang: Remembrance of Sublets Past 2009

  • For over a decade, I moved through pockets of the city like most New Yorkers -- rabbit ears and Joan Crawford's beloved wire hangers reigning in my TV reception, from sublets in the West Village, to illegal dwellings on the Upper West Side, to final relaxation in a diminutive rent-stabilized Hell's Kitchen abode.

    R. B. Stuart: NYC Gripes: The Digital TV Scam 2009

  • *Found two fantastic sublets through Craigslist, sight-unseen

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

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