Tenant - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- any occupant who dwells in a place
verb
Extra examples
A tenant is now leasing the apartment.
...the laundry in the basement is for tenants only...
The desk was left by the previous tenant.
Council tenants are not allowed to have dogs in there flats.
...the recently deceased tenant was found by a concerned neighbor...
...poor tenant farmers working for landed gentry...
...since no one lived in the attic, the landlord suggested that the new tenant might have seen the materialization of a woman once murdered there...
...clearing the refrigerator of what the previous tenant had left behind was like taking a course in the advanced putrefaction of leftovers...
The apartment needs to be cleaned out before a new tenant can move in.
The tenant went to very needless expense.
This allowed tenant farmers to buy land on easy terms (=by paying small sums of money over a long period).
Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien
Word forms
singular: tenant
plural: tenants
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