relet

American

[ree-let] / ˌriˈlɛt /

verb (used with object)

to rent or lease (land, buildings, rooms, space, etc.) again, or to renew a lease or rental agreement for.

The judge ruled that the landlord was not entitled to any damages because he had successfully relet the apartment.
Full payment is required if you cancel within seven days of your arrival date and we are unable to relet your room.

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Origin of relet

re- ( def. ) + let ¹ ( def. )

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relet reletting

Many institutional investors don’t want to spend the money needed to refurbish even a high-quality office to get it relet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

But two and a half years later, with Canada at war, the Winnipeg Free Press broke the story that the old Bren gun contract had been canceled and relet on a management-fee basis.

From Time Magazine Archive

The number of artisans' dwellings required was 1,335, about 550 of which were removed altogether, the rest being improved and relet, or converted into shops, warehouses, &c.

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Thomas T. Harman

I cannot say that the annual commissions will amount to a very great deal, though they will exceed a hundred a year by the terms on which the lands will be relet.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

The land was let only for a certain number of years, but afterward was usually relet either to the same or to another tenant.

From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney

As soon as our scheme for reletting was matured, Frank summoned the occupants of the farms, in bodies of ten, to present themselves at the 'Nest, in order to take their new leases.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

By canceling the contract, collecting the penalty, and reletting the task, the city would profit without exceeding its legal rights.

From Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business by Walter Dill Scott

But, in reletting his farms, he is liable to fall into two errors, which are almost equally prejudicial to his own interests, and to those of his country.

From Nature and Progress of Rent by T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus

However, after her death we thought we would give one garden-party before reletting, which we did in 1884.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers

Old Euler lost no time in reletting the ground floor.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Gilbert Cannan

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