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▪ I. ˈsub-let, n.
[f. next.]
A sub-lease.
1906Daily Chron. 14 Sept. 4/5 The extensive shooting near Kingume,..which Lord Lilford has on a sub-let. 1906A. B. Todd Poet. Wks., Autobiogr. iv. 36 My father had taken the place in sub-let from the late Mr. John Campbell.
Add:2. A subleased property. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1961in Webster. 1982M. McMullen Better off Dead ii. vi. 107 In a coast town, maybe a sublet? Lonely empty houses. 1988A. Lurie Truth about Lorin Jones ii. 36 She was camped out in a Queens sublet.
▪ II. sub-ˈlet, v.
[f. sub- 9 (b) + let v.1]
trans. To let (property, a tenement) to a subtenant; to lease out (work, etc.) under a subcontract; to underlet, sublease.
1766Smollett Trav. xxxix. II. 223 My landlord..declared I should not be permitted to sub-let them to any other person. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 124 The Chieftain..lets the land..to renters; who sub-let it, again, in small parcels from year to year, to the lower class of the people. 1860All Year Round No. 68. 427 This man employs the needlewomen, or perhaps sublets part of his contract to others who employ them. 1865Q. Rev. July 31 Poulterers of Edinburgh and Glasgow rent ground, subletting the shooting, and furnishing the shops with the produce. 1871Amy Dutton Streets & Lanes i. 11 That house was occupied by a couple named Cripps, hard, griping people, who sublet most of the rooms. 1890Century Mag. June 221/1 He's let and sublet, and every man has to make something out of him [the convict] each time.
absol.1872–4Jefferies Toilers of Field (1892) 242 He sub-lets, or takes lodgers, and sometimes these sub-let.
Hence subˈlettable a., subˈletter, subˈletting vbl. n.
1869Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Sept. 3 It is, of course, to be saleable and devisable. Is it not also to be *subletable?
1861Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 230 The *sub-lettors declaring..that the rents were raised to them.
1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. II. 108 The *subletting of land. 1826Bell Comm. Laws Scot. (ed. 5) I. 77 The right..of subletting. 1854McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire I. 537 The legislature passed the Subletting Act, by which the underletting of farms was prohibited without the landlord's consent in writing. 1888Times (weekly ed.) 11 May 15/2 He had known three or four sublettings before the work reached the workman. |