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What (who) is tenant - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Tenant (disambiguation)
Tenant
·vt To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
II. Tenant ·noun One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an Occupant.
III. Tenant ·noun One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another;
- correlative to landlord. ·see Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
tenant
(tenants)
A tenant is someone who pays rent for the place they live in, or for land or buildings that they use.
N-COUNT
see also sitting tenant
tenant
n. a person who occupies real property owned by another based upon an agreement between the person and the landlord/owner, almost always for rental payments.
See also: tenancy
Examples of use of tenant
1. Landlords have but one way to legally raise the rent more than a token amount annually: Persuade a tenant to leave, or prove the tenant lives elsewhere.
2. It was awful," said prospective tenant John Richards, 70.
3. Raye had cleaned out the rental after evicting a tenant.
4. "Donald Trump, baby!" one tenant shouted in approval.
5. Luckily for him the tenant withdrew his complaint.