subletting

English

Verb

subletting

1. present participle and gerund of sublet

Noun

subletting (plural sublettings)

1. (property law, real estate) Synonym of sublease.

   Synonyms: sublease, underlease, subtenancy, undertenancy, underletting, (informal) sublet, underlet

   • 1846, Thomas Campbell Foster, Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland, page 270:

     […] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants.