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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sublease

Sublease \Sub"lease`\, n. (Law) A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease.
--Bouvier.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sublease

also sub-lease, 1826, from sub- + lease (n.). As a verb from 1830s. Related: Subleased; subleasing.

Wiktionary
sublease

n. A lease on something made by someone who already leases it. vb. To lease something that is already leased; to sublet.

WordNet
sublease
  1. n. a lease from one lessee to another [syn: sublet]

  2. v. lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person; "We sublet our apartment over the summer" [syn: sublet]

Usage examples of "sublease".

We lease and sublease multi kinds of timemakeshift, standby, conceptual et al forth.

I can sublease from Professional Investigations, or one of the other agencies.

Porsches, Mercedes, Jaguars, and Cadillacs and illegally sublease them to others.

According to Alcide, many of the condos had been bought as an investment and were subleased to legislators, most of who would be gone for the pre-holidays.

She returned just before dark to the apartment she had subleased from a friend.

Then she subleased it to a couple of college students, omitting the grisly details of what had happened to its last occupant.

At the same time it continued giving class, it made the adjustments necessary to sublease his house, and it never lost the good humor.

He said I could sublease them for next to nothing and feed them dirt cheap.

If he give a male or female slave away for forced labor, and the merchant sublease them, or sell them for money, no objection can be raised.

I told him no subleases, the check had to come from him, no split obligations.