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sublease

[suhb-lees, suhb-lees] / ˈsʌbˌlis, sʌbˈlis /


VERB
lease
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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In some cases, it can take over the underlying leases and use the facilities itself or sublease them to other firms.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

He was jailed for convictions including several peaceful protests and a fraud charge related to a sublease of his media company’s offices.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 2026

I moved into a little sublease on Fairfax, and my parents were super-worried about me.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 6, 2024

Good news: This chicken taco will be readily available once business partners Steven Aguilar and Erik Walters sublease a space inside a bar to launch their Southern California-Mexican-style taqueria in Seattle.

From Seattle Times Jan. 6, 2024

A transfer by the lessee of the whole or a part of his interest for a part of the time is a sublease and not an assignment.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles

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.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 2024

Amtrak subleases a small portion of the station — about 13.4 percent of it — from USI for railroad operations, which includes the concourse area before passengers go to the platform.

From Washington Post May 25, 2022

Leap leases locations in clusters and then subleases them to retailers, said Jared Golden, a co-founder and co-chief executive of Leap.

From New York Times Mar. 23, 2022

Including vacancies, upcoming vacancies and subleases, nearly 20% of downtown office space was available at the end of June, according to another firm, Savills.

From Seattle Times Jul. 30, 2021

The observatories pay just $1 a year for their subleases, but they share day-to-day costs such as road maintenance, snow removal, and operations of the visitor center.

From Science Magazine Jan. 14, 2020

Nowaid subleased the parcel to nearly a dozen businesses that operated inside the 48,000-square-foot area, charging them in total about three times what he was paying, according to court documents and tenants.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2023

Owners of two of the companies that subleased the property said they also had warned of a fire danger and other hazards related to homeless people living under the freeway.

From Washington Times Nov. 20, 2023

The fire, which arson investigators believe was intentionally set, was fueled by wood pallets stored on a Caltrans property being leased to a private company and subleased to small blue-collar businesses.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 18, 2023

Business owners who subleased the storage properties said they voiced concerns for years about fire danger and other hazards related to camps in an industrial zone under I-10.

From Seattle Times Nov. 15, 2023

In 1900 he subleased the Herald Square Theater in New York City and thus laid the corner-stone of what came to be known as the "Independent Movement" throughout the country.

From Charles Frohman: Manager and Man by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

Savi, which is subleasing the Southwest Atlanta space from the city, is building out the 16,000 square feet into a supermarket.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

Spencer’s wife, Jenna, saw that Designers View was subleasing part of its space on Lankershim Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2024

He added that the state is in litigation with the lessee and believes it has been subleasing the space.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 12, 2023

A year after it slowed expansion of its fulfillment network — closing some facilities, halting plans for others and subleasing space in others — Amazon is again expanding its warehouse footprint.

From Seattle Times Sep. 19, 2023

They didn’t want to keep subleasing from other gyms, so they began looking for a space where they could set up their own temporary training center.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles




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