[ UK /tˈɛnənt/ ]
[ US /ˈtɛnənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
  2. any occupant who dwells in a place
  3. someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
    the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent
VERB
  1. occupy as a tenant
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How To Use tenant In A Sentence

  • Now that I think about it, direct property distraint was a recognized means of compelling welchers to fulfill their obligations in the quasi-anarchic Brehon laws of Celtic Ireland, even if it was a case of tenants or debtors going after landlords or creditors. Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #30
  • Stahl Real Estate has applied to demolish two early 20th century buildings, but preservationists are firing back, arguing that the 190 rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments, which sit between 64th and 65th streets near York Avenue, have played a vital role housing lower- and middle-class tenants for nearly a century. New Spat Over Upper East Side Rent
  • On the evening of 24 May 1941, British lieutenant commander Malcolm Wanklyn, in command of the submarine Upholder, sighted an enemy troop convoy strongly escorted by destroyers off Sicily.
  • Historically, 95 percent of lieutenants become captains.
  • Soon the association was strong enough to boycott local landlords who were evicting their tenants and offering the land to others at increased rents.
  • I bid you goodnight, Lieutenant. Man of Honour
  • Rather than deal with the hassle of finding tenants and collecting the rent, I had appointed an agent to do the dirty work.
  • Flynn said Hilton denied owning a small plastic "bindle" containing 0.8 grams of cocaine powder that the police lieutenant said fell out when Hilton opened the purse to get a tube of lip balm. CBS3.com - Philadelphia's Source For Breaking News, Weather, Traffic and Sports
  • In 1819 the tenant was a person named McKechnie, as to whom I have been unable to glean any information whatever beyond the bare fact that he was a pewholder in St. James's church. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
  • Tractors and harvesters were replacing mules and manual labor, and mechanization was in the process of making black tenant farmers and sharecroppers expendable.
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