sublease
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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to grant a sublease of.
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to take or hold a sublease of.
noun
verb
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to grant a sublease of (property); sublet
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(tr) to take, obtain, or hold by sublease
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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subleasesimple
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subleasessimple
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have subleasedperfect
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has subleasedperfect
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am subleasingprogressive
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are subleasingprogressive
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is subleasingprogressive
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have been subleasingperfect progressive
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has been subleasingperfect progressive
Past
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subleasedsimple
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had subleasedperfect
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was subleasingprogressive
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were subleasingprogressive
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had been subleasingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of sublease
Example Sentences
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Grocery Outlet did not announce which locations would be closed at the time, but they were listed for sublease by advisory firm Gordon Bros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
In Central California, the Kerman, Patterson and Ridgecrest stores were also listed for sublease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
He was jailed for convictions including several peaceful protests and a fraud charge related to a sublease of his media company’s offices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Petersen also has rescinded dozens of employment offers not tied to the company's core businesses and announced plans to sublease unused office space.
From Reuters ● Sep. 12, 2023
A transfer by the lessee of the whole or a part of his interest for a part of the time is a sublease and not an assignment.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Bolles, Albert Sidney
Most of the $45 million that has been spent on the ship, city officials said, has come from revenue from the Queen Mary or related subleases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
That state agency currently leases the mountain to UH, which in turn subleases sites to Mauna Kea’s 12 existing observatories.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 12, 2023
In 1968, the state gave the University of Hawaii a 65-year lease for land that the school subleases to leading global research institutions in exchange for a share of observation time.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2022
Amtrak subleases the concourse space from USI and is in the middle of a court battle as it tries to take over the station’s leasing rights from it.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
Leap leases locations in clusters and then subleases them to retailers, said Jared Golden, a co-founder and co-chief executive of Leap.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
Owners of two of the companies that subleased the property said they also had warned of a fire danger and other hazards related to homeless people living under the freeway.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
The fire, which arson investigators believe was intentionally set, was fueled by wood pallets stored on a Caltrans property being leased to a private company and subleased to small blue-collar businesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2023
The redevelopment agency then subleased the space to the museum at no charge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
In Seattle, overall office vacancy, which includes both unleased and subleased space, is around 22%, according to industry reports.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
I subleased your land from the Macpherson Mortgage Company three years ago.
From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill
Savi, which is subleasing the Southwest Atlanta space from the city, is building out the 16,000 square feet into a supermarket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
Major tech companies such as Dropbox and Salesforce reduced footprints in the city by subleasing office space, while retailers including Nordstrom and Anthropologie pulled out of downtown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2025
Talented winemaker Trey Busch expands to the Eastside by subleasing a room from Darby Winery.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
Officials said the property where the fire broke out was being leased by Calabasas-based Apex Development Inc., which was subleasing the storage site under the overpass without permission from state and federal agencies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
They didn’t want to keep subleasing from other gyms, so they began looking for a space where they could set up their own temporary training center.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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