Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To sublet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To let below the true or the market value. To sublet.
- noun In brewing, a pipe which serves to admit water below the false bottom of the mash-tun or mashing-vat, replacing with fresh water the wort when drawn off.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To let below the value.
- transitive verb To let or lease at second hand; to sublet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To let below the value.
- verb To let or lease at second hand; to
sublet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now that I was left wholly to myself, I gave notice of my intention to quit the chambers in the Temple as soon as my tenancy could legally determine, and in the meanwhile to underlet them.
Great Expectations 2007
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‘They are not to be got rid of, for six months at least, unless they could be underlet, and that I don’t believe.
David Copperfield 2007
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Church lands had always been underlet; the monks were easy landlords.
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At one time he wanted me to join him in renting several houses, then building in the Rue Montholon, to underlet them afterwards.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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And he may underlet for any less number of years than he himself holds; but he is himself liable to the landlord.
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She has a farm or two, part of which is underlet of course.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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Not contented with his bargain, the chapman attempted to _underlet_ to another speculator, the liberty of showing him, and poor Cotter resisting this nefarious transaction, was saddled with a fictitious debt, and thrown into a spunging house in
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 Various
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The land is let on lease for terms as long sometimes as sixty-four years, and is sometimes underlet at greatly increased prices to the ultimate tenants, whose precarious condition brings the "head" landlord into undeserved odium.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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May a lessee for years underlet without the lessor's leave?
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'They are not to be got rid of, for six months at least, unless they could be underlet, and that I don't believe.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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