subletting
English edit
Verb edit
subletting
- present participle and gerund of sublet
Noun edit
subletting (plural sublettings)
- (property law, real estate) Synonym of sublease.
- Synonyms: sublease, underlease, subtenancy, undertenancy, underletting, (informal) sublet, underlet
- 1846, Thomas Campbell Foster, Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland, page 270:
- […] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants.