sub-rentern.
/ˌsʌbˈrɛntə/, /ˈsʌbˌrɛntə/, U.S. /ˌsəbˈrɛn(t)ər/ A person who rents land or property as a subtenant; a sublessee. Also occasionally: a person who lets land or property to a subtenant; a sublessor.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > leaseholder or tenant > subordinate
subtacksman1602
sublessee1651
underlessee1730
sub-renter1787
1787 tr. C.-F. Volney Trav. Syria & Egypt II. xxx. 297 An Aga resides here, who holds, as a sub-renter of the Pacha of Damascus [Fr. à titre de sous-ferme], the whole country as far as Palmyra.
1813 R. Grant Expediency Maintained i. 21 They adopted intricate divisions of their lands, and complex modes of collecting their own dues from the sub-renters.
1893 Daily News 10 Apr. 4/8 A fine gradation of lessees, sub-renters, and middle-men.
1919 High Cost Living District Columbia (U.S. Senate, 66th Congr., 1st Sess.) 796 Such legislation should also obtain against subrenters, for my observation has been that a number of tenants are getting a greater rental for one or two rooms than they are paying for the entire house rented.
1930 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 150 238/2 The growing of cereals was largely left to renters, subrenters, and crop-sharers.
1985 Central European Hist. 18 150 The study..listed the owners, number of households and inhabitants, subrenters, the age of inhabitants [etc.].
2010 Q. R. Skrabec Henry Clay Frick xii. 125 The two rooms would house a family of six with a possible sub-renter or two.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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