Subleases [verb]
Definition of Subleases:
rent object, residence
Sentence/Example of Subleases:
A transfer of only a portion of a tenant's interest is a sublease.
The sale of the stock and the fine for the sublease will pay the debts of the corporation.
A transfer by a tenant of an interest in the leased premises may be an assignment, or it may be a sublease.
A sublease is a transfer of a part of a tenant's interest in the leased premises.
If A leases the farm to C for five years, the transaction is a sublease.
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.
Probably he refused written consent to the sublease for the same reason.