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  • verb Present participle of sublet.

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Examples

  • The "subletting" bill - which has been passed by senators and is currently awaiting final approval from the state governor - has been designed to crack down on illegal hotels that cause problems for permanent residents by depleting the local housing pool and creating noise and security issues.

    Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • The infamous bill S6873 the "subletting" bill which has been designed to crack down on illegal hotels that cause problems for permanent residents has now been passed into law and is due to come into effect on May 1, 2011.

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2010

  • The estate department had objected to 'subletting' operation and maintenance of Gallops restaurant at the racecourse to a third party without its consent.

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

  • The estate department had objected to 'subletting' operation and maintenance of Gallops restaurant at the racecourse to a third party without its consent.

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

  • The gig at the Music Hall of Williamsburg gives Mr. Murdoch a chance to set up shop, however temporarily, in Brooklyn, where he's resided briefly in recent years, subletting apartments and catching up with musical friends.

    Alexi Murdoch Can't Be Rushed Jim Fusilli 2011

  • Vornado could help the retailer profit from its stores by subletting space leased at below-market rates or even redeveloping Penney-owned property in the best locations, analysts and investors say.

    Itching for a Deal, Vornado Tweaks Its Tastes Anton Troianovski 2010

  • His girlfriend and I ended up subletting the house, and I moved into a friend's house down the street.

    Twenty-three-year-olds Shouldn't Be Writing Memoirs (Ch 6) Robert David Moseley 2011

  • If new tenants choose to return to the informal settlements, or to build their own shack at the back of their new home, they can keep an income from the illegal subletting.

    The post-apartheid struggle for equality still has far to go | the big issue 2011

  • The Standards Commissioner, John Lyon, has spent more than a year investigating a complaint that the Prime Minister failed properly to declare £1,600 in rent from subletting his constituency office to Labour Party colleagues.

    Gordon Brown may be about to face censure, not that you would know from the BBC Not a sheep 2009

  • It is thought Mr Brown would be the first MP to have breached a ban on subletting their constituency offices since it was introduced seven years ago.

    Gordon Brown may be about to face censure, not that you would know from the BBC Not a sheep 2009

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