What is "subtenants"

Usage examples of "subtenants".

Yet the city hummed with life in the morning sun, the subtenants and landless ones indifferent to the events of the previous night.

Teach violence to the subtenants and landless ones and where will it end?

I told him I would agree to turn the present disaster into a first-class office building if he would forgo all rent during the renovation period and revise the lease to permit rental to quality subtenants and bank financing for part of the building improvements.

The type and numbers of the subtenants would normally have been a matter of concern, even on the top floor.