leaseholder
Americannoun
noun
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a person in possession of leasehold property
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a tenant under a lease
Etymology
Origin of leaseholder
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It also would broaden public insight into how lease agreements with the port affect the local workforce by requiring any leaseholder extending a lease or lease applicant to disclose overview on its employment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Sophie Bishener, leaseholder and campaigner with the End our Cladding Scandal group, said that flats with unsafe cladding left unremediated were like "prisons", and this is having a "devastating" impact on people's lives.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
A leaseholder and member of the Social Housing Action Campaign, she believes one social housing flat has been illegally sublet as short-term accommodation.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Australia's defence minister Richard Marles said Thursday that Canberra was "disappointed" the Chinese leaseholder of the strategic Darwin Port was challenging efforts to return it to local ownership.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
"It's a private code," laughed the leaseholder, "but that's the price."
From Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress by George Randolph Chester
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