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tenant
[ten-uhnt]
noun
a person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office, or the like, from another for a period of time; lessee.
Law., a person who holds or possesses for a time lands, tenements, or personalty of another, usually for rent.
an occupant or inhabitant of any place.
verb (used with object)
to hold or occupy as a tenant; dwell in; inhabit.
verb (used without object)
to dwell or live (usually followed byin ).
tenant
/ ˈtɛnənt /
noun
a person who holds, occupies, or possesses land or property by any kind of right or title, esp from a landlord under a lease
a person who has the use of a house, flat, etc, subject to the payment of rent
any holder or occupant
verb
(tr) to hold (land or property) as a tenant
rare, to dwell
Other Word Forms
- tenantable adjective
- tenantless adjective
- tenantlike adjective
- nontenant noun
- nontenantable adjective
- untenantable adjective
- untenanted adjective
- tenant-like adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of tenant1
Example Sentences
It also can use the confidential data to estimate what a new building, without any rental-property history, should charge to tenants.
If Meta walked away, and there wasn’t a new tenant to take over, the guarantee by Meta is supposed to be sufficient to cover the outstanding debt.
Department of Justice that focuses on software from RealPage that is used by many apartment operators to set rent prices for vacant units and renewal rates for existing tenants.
Instead, would-be tenants would turn to older apartment buildings, single-family homes or, in the most extreme cases, shelters and encampments.
The five tenants also had to put up with a faulty ventilation system that was so noisy it kept them awake at night and caused mould.
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