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单词 sublet
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subletn.

Brit. /ˈsʌblɛt/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌlɛt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: sublet v.
Etymology: < sublet v. Compare earlier sublease n.
1. = sublease n. in sublet: on a sublease.
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society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > [noun] > taking on rent or lease > lease > sub-lease
subtack1574
under-lease1699
sub-demisea1715
sublease1758
sublet1833
1833 Q. Jrnl. Agric. 4 No. 23. 671 An assignation to a sublet of a valuable lease in security of a loan of money.
1862 Sc. Law Mag. & Sheriff Court Reporter 1 37/1 Barred from exercising the right of hypothec which would have belonged to her had the sub-let not been competent or not recognised.
1906 A. B. Todd Autobiogr. in Poet. Wks. iv. 36 My father had taken the place in sub-let from the late Mr. John Campbell.
1984 A. Lurie Foreign Affairs ii. 49 He and Roo were planning their trip together, counting on his study leave, both their savings, and the sublet of their apartment.
2009 G. Sheldon 250 Questions Every Landlord should Ask iv. 121 The landlord should either accept or deny the sublet.
2. colloquial (originally North American). A property that has been or may be sublet.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > property which is let or re-let
rent1422
relet1861
sublet1928
1928 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Free Press 9 Apr. 21/5 (advt.) Sublet—New Marlhurst, 125 Carlton St.
1958 J. Kesson White Bird Passes i. 8 They could swipe the bugs from the walls of their sub-lets in peace.
1982 M. McMullen Better off Dead ii. vi. 107 In a coast town, maybe a sublet? Lonely empty houses.
2002 A. Behrman Electroboy (2003) v. 137 I move from my duplex apartment on West 89th Street to a cheaper sublet, a studio on West 81st Street.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

subletadj.

Brit. /ˌsʌbˈlɛt/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌlɛt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English sublet , sublet v.
Etymology: < sublet, past participle of sublet v.
Of land or property: that is or has been let to a subtenant. Also occasionally of work: leased out under a subcontract; subcontracted.
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1818 J. C. Curwen Observ. State Ireland II. xxxviii. 39 The rents of these small sublet parcels become so high to the actual cultivators, as to preclude all profitable returns from their labour.
1866 Liverpool Mercury 19 Jan. 4/8 The matter of inspecting sublet houses.
1916 Industr. Relations: Final Rep. & Testimony (U.S. Comm. Industr. Relations) II. 1612 They should have in their contract a union clause whereby the sublet work would also be taken by unions.
1933 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Dec. 1182/2 Many families were living in overcrowded conditions, and a large number of people were homeless or living in sublet apartments.
1958 Waterloo (Iowa) Sunday Courier 27 May 6/1 The sublet job would include the spreading of bituminous surfacing on the street requiring equipment that the Midland Co. does not possess.
1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 May c12 She and her husband are selling her first collection out of two tiny sublet rooms on West 57th Street.
2006 R. M. Schlein in B. C. Shaffer Sublease & Assignment Deskbk. xvi. 135 Will the sublet portion of the premises require a separate entrance?
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

subletv.

Brit. /ˌsʌbˈlɛt/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌlɛt/, /ˌsəbˈlɛt/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sub- prefix, let v.1
Etymology: < sub- prefix + let v.1 Compare later sublease v.
1.
a. transitive. Of a tenant: to let (land or property) to a subtenant; to sublease. Also intransitive.
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society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > hire or rent out [verb (transitive)] > sub-let
tavern1534
subset1681
sublet1766
sub-rent1788
underset1809
sub-demise1818
underlease1819
underlet1819
sublease1824
sublet1826
society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > rent out [verb (intransitive)] > sub-let
subset1681
sublet1960
1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy II. xxxix. 223 My landlord..declared I should not be permitted to sub-let them to any other person.
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 124 The Chieftain..lets the land..to renters; who sub-let it..in small parcels from year to year, to the lower class of the people.
1806 W. Scott Let. 5 July (1932) I. 307 I have sublet the whole of the sheep farm.
1871 A. Dutton Streets & Lanes i. 11 That house was occupied by a couple named Cripps, hard, griping people, who sublet most of the rooms.
1925 A. Loos Gentlemen prefer Blondes ii. 41 Dorothy sublet her apartment when she went to Europe last year.
1960 G. W. Potter To Golden Door i. viii. 41 The farmer who sublet from..the proprietor often in turn sublet portions of his holdings.
2005 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 4 Feb. 8/4 She suspected some..could be using the flats as a cash cow by subletting them.
b. transitive. To rent (land or property) as a subtenant. Frequently with from. Also intransitive.
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1878 Atlantic Monthly May 556/2 He explained the methods of payment of rent by the peasants who sub-let from the farmers.
1882 Gazetteer Bombay Presidency XIII. i. iii. 178 They do not take the land on a regular lease, but occasionally sublet it from the Government tenants, to whom they pay a share of the produce.
1918 L. Scott Mary Regan 129 We sublet an apartment on Riverside Drive, and we're known there as Mr. and Mrs. Grayson.
1976 B. Ruby Ruby in Rough 49 Merv had sublet it from Robin, who had probably sublet it from someone else, and now we were in it. Whoever owned the building didn't know we were there.
1999 P. R. Magocsi Encycl. Canada's Peoples 1118/1 Not all of the Lowland population could be direct tenants of the great landlords; many people were forced to sublet from those who held leases.
2009 A. D. Purcell White Collar Radicals i. iii. 59 The need for cheap rent led several TVA employees to sublet a house together.
2. transitive. To lease out (work, an employee, etc.) under a subcontract. Also intransitive.
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society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > hire or rent out [verb (transitive)] > sub-let
tavern1534
subset1681
sublet1766
sub-rent1788
underset1809
sub-demise1818
underlease1819
underlet1819
sublease1824
sublet1826
1826 Contract 5 Oct. in Jrnl. 37th House of Representatives Pennsylvania (1827) 2 205 The contractors aforesaid, are not at liberty to transfer or sub-let this contract to others.
1860 All Year Round 11 Aug. 427 This man employs the needlewomen, or perhaps sublets part of his contract to others who employ them.
1890 Cent. Mag. June 221/1 He's let and sublet, and every man has to make something out of him [sc. the convict] each time.
1922 H. D. Grant Pract. Accounting for Gen. Contractors ii. 14 It would be more consistent..to sub-let under the conditions he has assumed on the original contract.
1944 J. H. Bennetts in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder i. 13/1 Where the builder accepts responsibility for all the trades and labours, and desires to sublet some trades, separate agreements are drawn up between the builder and sub-contractors.
1993 Houston Chron. 4 Apr. (Sunday Mag.) 7/2 Temps could sublet their jobs to temp-temps willing to work for a few dollars less per hour, with the perma-temps pocketing the difference.

Derivatives

(Chiefly in sense 1.)
subˈlettable adj.
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society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > [adjective] > sub-letting > sub-let > that may be sub-let
subsettable1801
sublettable1869
1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Sept. 3 It is, of course, to be saleable and devisable. Is it not also to be subletable?
1990 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 13 Feb. 32 About 23,000 sq m of space in North Sydney..is vacant on a direct-lease basis but a further 14,000 sq m of sublettable space is also on the market.
subˈletting n. the action or practice of letting to a subtenant; an instance of this.
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society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > [noun] > leasing > subletting or subleasing
taverning1575
undersettling1576
under-renting1641
subseta1722
subsettinga1722
subletting1798
sub-renting1812
underletting1819
1798 Oracle & Public Advertiser 5 June 1/4 The impolicy and hard-heartedness of their great landlords, that encourages..the endless sub-letting of farms.
1888 Times (Weekly ed.) 11 May 15/2 He had known three or four sublettings before the work reached the workman.
1921 R. S. Kirby Elem. Specif. Writing (ed. 2) xi. 103 Some Engineers hold that subletting of public work should not be permitted.
1996 P. Wilde Which? Guide to Renting & Letting (rev. ed.) ii. 19 The subletting of each of the individual flats..could be within the definition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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