cotenant

[ koh-ten-uhnt ]

/ koʊˈtɛn ənt /

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noun

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Origin of cotenant

First recorded in 1815–25; co- + tenant

OTHER WORDS FROM cotenant

co·ten·an·cy, co·ten·ure

[koh-ten-yer], /koʊˈtɛn yər/, noun

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How to use cotenant in a sentence

The effort to sterilize his image first began when Epstein hired Los Angeles-based spin doctors Sitrick Co.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Reached Tuesday, a Sitrick Co. rep confirmed they parted ways with Epstein in April 2011.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
They say it's frightening how the real CIA is perceived to be as clueless as Archer Co.
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS|Marlow Stern|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Eva Silverman, who co-hosts an Oakland Dinner Party, agrees.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

But probably because we co-edited the Deadline Artists anthologies with our friend Jesse Angelo, we feel a fidelity to the form.
The Best Columns of 2014|John Avlon, Errol Louis|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.
Children's Ways|James Sully
The conception of the relation of this institution with them as co-operative makes headway slowly.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Then they were to co-operate with an army moving up from Arkansas, and the State would be redeemed.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
And the Process or Method of study, if it be an Assimilating one, also compels this co-operation.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
The leaguers were now anxious to co-operate with the Americans in compelling the Spaniards to evacuate the Archipelago.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman

British Dictionary definitions for cotenant

cotenant

/ (kəʊˈtɛnənt) /

noun

a person who holds property jointly or in common with others

Derived forms of cotenant

cotenancy, noun

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