Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that rents property, such as land or a house, from a tenant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tenant under a tenant; one who rents land or houses from a tenant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Law) One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant; an undertenant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Someone who sublets, a person who rents from a tenant.

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Examples

  • Also know that in today's market, with rents down and vacancies up in many places, the chances of finding a subtenant or assignee who will expect to pay less rent to you than they would to the landlord to get you completely off the financial hook, are low.

    Jim Thomas: Four Ways to Get Out of Your Lease, Part 2 Jim Thomas 2012

  • Also know that in today's market, with rents down and vacancies up in many places, the chances of finding a subtenant or assignee who will expect to pay less rent to you than they would to the landlord to get you completely off the financial hook, are low.

    Jim Thomas: Four Ways to Get Out of Your Lease, Part 2 Jim Thomas 2012

  • Before I got back, my subtenant bailed on her decision to pick up the lease of my flat, which she'd rented with all my furniture.

    W. Hunter Roberts: Stuffing It 2010

  • Before I got back, my subtenant bailed on her decision to pick up the lease of my flat, which she'd rented with all my furniture.

    W. Hunter Roberts: Stuffing It 2010

  • "Unless the bank finds a subtenant or unless there's the higher-paying tenant out there that really wants the space," the leases remain intact, Mr. Burns said.

    Empty Bank Branches Add To Supply In Retail Real Estate 2009

  • He was a free man, and held as subtenant under the lord of Wem, and he was willing and ready to account for the unexpected guest in his stable.

    The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

  • He was a free man, and held as subtenant under the lord of Wem, and he was willing and ready to account for the unexpected guest in his stable.

    The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

  • His subtenant wrote to say that he liked the flat and found it so convenient that he was very anxious to know whether there was a chance of John giving up possession of it.

    The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927

  • We'd enjoyed about ten days of peace too, with no bloodcurdlin 'sounds floatin' down the light shaft, and I was hopin 'maybe the subtenant had renigged, when one mornin' the front office door opens easy, and in slips this face herbage exhibit.

    Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907

  • Albemarle to restore to his former subtenant Bytham Castle, in South

    The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

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