Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To sublease.

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Examples

  • My brother and I, with our father, it will be noted, own and rent 2,185 acres of land, but we try to help our tenants in every possible way, and, when they desire it, subrent to them such tracts as they desire for ten years, or less.

    Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Booker T. Washington 1885

  • We subrent tracts of this total of 1,580 acres to thirty tenants, charging one and one-half bales of cotton for each one-horse farm.

    Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Booker T. Washington 1885

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