Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To sublet (property).
- transitive verb To rent (property) under a sublease.
- noun A lease of property granted by a lessee.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, an under-lease; a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee or tenant.
- To underlease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lease on something made by someone who alreadyleases it. - verb To
lease something that is already leased; tosublet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person
- noun a lease from one lessee to another
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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& 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.
Businesses Take Less 2008
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The report shows 215,000 square feet of office space available for sublease, which is low compared to a peak of 700,000 square feet of sublease space in 2002, shortly after an economic downturn in 2001.
Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2010
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The report shows 215,000 square feet of office space available for sublease, which is low compared to a peak of 700,000 square feet of sublease space in 2002, shortly after an economic downturn in 2001.
Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal 2010
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The sublease offer comes as Playboy's directors are weighing a proposal from founder and majority owner Hugh Hefner to take the company private.
Playboy's Chicago Headquarters Up For Sublease: Will They Leave Chicago? Crain 2010
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Playboy Enterprises Inc. has put its Lake Shore Drive headquarters space up for sublease, a step likely to rekindle talk that Chicago could lose a corporate headquarters.
Playboy's Chicago Headquarters Up For Sublease: Will They Leave Chicago? Crain's Chicago Business 2010
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The sublease offer comes as Playboy's directors are weighing a proposal from founder and majority owner Hugh Hefner to take the company private.
Playboy's Chicago Headquarters Up For Sublease: Will They Leave Chicago? Crain's Chicago Business 2010
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Playboy Enterprises Inc. has put its Lake Shore Drive headquarters space up for sublease, a step likely to rekindle talk that Chicago could lose a corporate headquarters.
Playboy's Chicago Headquarters Up For Sublease: Will They Leave Chicago? Crain 2010
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Playboy Enterprises Inc. has put its Lake Shore Drive headquarters space up for sublease, a step likely to rekindle talk that Chicago could lose a ...
Playboy's Chicago Headquarters Up For Sublease: Will They Leave Chicago? Crain's Chicago Business 2010
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