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sublet

verb

B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

To grant a lease of part or all of premises to another party while retaining the head lease.

The tenant wants to sublet the upper floors but the lease prohibits underletting of part.

Similar: underlet

Topic: Property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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