: a lease by a tenant or lessee of part or all of leased premises to another person but with the original tenant retaining some right or interest under the original lease
subleased; subleasing; subleases
: to make or obtain a sublease of
Examples of sublease in a Sentence
Verb
She subleased her apartment to a student for the summer.
The agency subleases office space from a law firm.
Recent Examples on the Web
George Avalos, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
Most of the $45 million that has been spent on the ship, city officials said, has come from revenue from the Queen Mary or related subleases.
—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The TikTok and ByteDance sublease agreements have filled up 820,600 square feet of office space at Coleman Highline.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
In 2017, about $23 million came from a Queen Mary reserve fund and bond issue from the Queen Mary’s Carnival sublease.
—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
Twitter sublease included in exhibits CrossInstall, the original party in the lease with Columbia REIT, was dissolved well before Musk bought Twitter.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2023
In a lawsuit filed Monday, Insight Terminal Solutions, a company owned by a Southern California hedge fund, claims city officials illegally breached ITS’ sublease to build a West Oakland marine terminal that would ship bulk goods overseas.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
Availability measures empty offices available for lease directly from a property owner or indirectly from a tenant through a sublease, according to a report this month.
Put another way, this means more than one-third of the office space in downtown San Jose is empty and available for rent.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
Based on data extracted from CoStar and our own monthly tracking of office asking rents across all major U.S. office markets, office subleases around the country are typically priced lower than what landlords are asking while traditional leases on average haven’t experienced adjustments in rents.
—David Marino, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
George Avalos, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2024
The plot of land was leased by Caltrans to a private company that subleased it to small blue-collar businesses at much higher rents.
—Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
Flames ripped through about a dozen businesses that had subleased a slice of property under the 10 Freeway, including a mechanic, a pallet distributor, a garment supplier, a recycler and others whose wares helped fuel the fire.
—Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
The lease has expired, Newsom said, and the business had been in arrears while illegally subleasing the space to five or six other entities.
—John Antczak, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
The 48,000-square-foot triangular lot at South Alameda and East 14th streets, where the fire tore through, had been leased by an absentee landlord, who subleased parcels of the property to others and failed to pay Caltrans rent for more than a year, according to the state.
—Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
The warehouse, packed with $5 million worth of cargo stolen from BNSF Railway, belonged to the California Department of Transportation but had been leased or subleased by thieves the detectives were still trying to identify.
—Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
ByteDance is in discussions to sublease at least one of the buildings, according to the sources.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
OpenAI just moved into 487,000 square feet of prime office space in Mission Bay, subleasing from Uber.
—Rebecca Lynn, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
Noun
The availability rate measures the empty office space resulting from a combination of direct vacancies and sublease offerings.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
Most of the $45 million that has been spent on the ship, city officials said, has come from revenue from the Queen Mary or related subleases.
—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The TikTok and ByteDance sublease agreements have filled up 820,600 square feet of office space at Coleman Highline.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
In 2017, about $23 million came from a Queen Mary reserve fund and bond issue from the Queen Mary’s Carnival sublease.
—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
Twitter sublease included in exhibits CrossInstall, the original party in the lease with Columbia REIT, was dissolved well before Musk bought Twitter.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2023
In a lawsuit filed Monday, Insight Terminal Solutions, a company owned by a Southern California hedge fund, claims city officials illegally breached ITS’ sublease to build a West Oakland marine terminal that would ship bulk goods overseas.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
Availability measures empty offices available for lease directly from a property owner or indirectly from a tenant through a sublease, according to a report this month.
Put another way, this means more than one-third of the office space in downtown San Jose is empty and available for rent.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
Based on data extracted from CoStar and our own monthly tracking of office asking rents across all major U.S. office markets, office subleases around the country are typically priced lower than what landlords are asking while traditional leases on average haven’t experienced adjustments in rents.
—David Marino, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Verb
The company also has subleased 122,000 square feet at 3325 Scott Blvd.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2024
The plot of land was leased by Caltrans to a private company that subleased it to small blue-collar businesses at much higher rents.
—Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
Flames ripped through about a dozen businesses that had subleased a slice of property under the 10 Freeway, including a mechanic, a pallet distributor, a garment supplier, a recycler and others whose wares helped fuel the fire.
—Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
The lease has expired, Newsom said, and the business had been in arrears while illegally subleasing the space to five or six other entities.
—John Antczak, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
The 48,000-square-foot triangular lot at South Alameda and East 14th streets, where the fire tore through, had been leased by an absentee landlord, who subleased parcels of the property to others and failed to pay Caltrans rent for more than a year, according to the state.
—Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
The warehouse, packed with $5 million worth of cargo stolen from BNSF Railway, belonged to the California Department of Transportation but had been leased or subleased by thieves the detectives were still trying to identify.
—Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
ByteDance is in discussions to sublease at least one of the buildings, according to the sources.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
OpenAI just moved into 487,000 square feet of prime office space in Mission Bay, subleasing from Uber.
—Rebecca Lynn, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
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sublease
noun
sub·lease
ˈsəb-ˈlēs,
-ˌlēs
: a lease by a tenant of part or all of leased property to another person
sublease
verb
Legal Definition
sublease
noun
sub·lease
ˈsəb-ˌlēs 
: a lease that is given by a tenant or lessee to another person of part or all of the leased premises for a shorter term than that of the original lease and under which some interest is retained compare assignment of lease at assignment
sublease
transitive verb
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