underlet
Americanverb
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to let for a price lower than expected or justified
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a less common word for sublet
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The landlord also usually agrees to repair, and often to renew the lease, and the lessee to pay rent, to insure and not to assign or underlet, without the landlord's consent.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
Church lands had always been underlet; the monks were easy landlords.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume I by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
The persons to whom this privilege was granted would underlet their right to merchants in various parts of the kingdom, on condition of receiving a certain share of the profits.
From Queen Elizabeth Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
A goodish old house, and a small estate, underlet as it is, bringing me about two thousand a year, and some expectations, as they call them, from an old grand-aunt.'
From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever
She has a farm or two, part of which is underlet of course.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker
The tenant will of course, be entitled to his tenant-right, but adequate precautions will be taken against underletting and other forms by which sweating makes its way into agricultural communities.
From In Darkest England and the Way Out by William Booth
Sismondi sufficiently sets forth the advantages of this over all other systems of leasing and underletting, as it allows the husbandman a well-being in direct proportion to the thoroughness and persistency of his labors.
From A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe
When nothing is said about underletting the whole or a part to some one else the tenant has a right to do this, but remains bound to the landlord for his rent.
From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Seymour Eaton
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