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sitting tenant

British  

noun

  1. a tenant occupying a house, flat, etc

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Ironically the Kensal Rise deal later collapsed, despite the removal of the sitting tenant "problem", and after his company folded, Papalexis moved to Florida.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2010

It was the old, thoughtful, sinister-looking owl, a sitting tenant for some twenty years.

From Letters from my Windmill by Daudet, Alphonse

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