Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One that pays rent to use or occupy land, a building, or other property owned by another.
- n. A dweller in a place; an occupant.
- n. Law One who holds or possesses lands, tenements, or sometimes personal property by any kind of title.
- transitive v. To hold as a tenant or be a tenant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
- v. To hold as, or be, a tenant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. 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.
- n. One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
- transitive v. To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To hold or possess as a tenant; occupy.
- To let out to tenants.
- To live as a tenant; dwell.
- A corruption of tenon.
- n. In law: A person who holds real property by private ownership, by any kind of title, either in fee, for life, for years, or at will.
- n. More specifically, one who holds under a superior owner, as a lessee or occupant for rent: used thus as correlative to landlord.
- n. A defendant in a real action. See action, 8 .
- n. One who has possession of anyplace; a dweller; an occupant.
- n. In heraldry, same as supporter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. occupy as a tenant
- n. someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
- n. a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
- n. any occupant who dwells in a place
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_In theory_, the tenant in chief could not sell his land; he could sublet it to a _mesne tenant_, who stood to himself precisely in the same relation as he -- the tenant _in capite_ -- stood to the sovereign, the mesne tenant in his turn being bound to render certain _services_ to his over lord, and liable to forfeit his _lease_ -- for in theory it was that -- if certain contingencies happened.
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Jnyirwedpe imdi/cendirt defendant pleads to part npft'-temttrt, and fhews who is tenant to the other part; that demandant had entered; and replication to noA-tenare, that the tenant was tenant* &c.; demarrer to the refidoe; judgment for the de - mandant, for that the lad plea was reptignant, and alfo for that the time of thst entry of demandant is not ailedged, |.
A Complete System of Pleading: Comprehending the Most Approved Precedents and Forms of Practice ...
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"This is a sum of money allowed for College chambers to the former occupier, in consideration of repairs or fitting up, and fur - niture, and is frequently transferred from one tenant to another in succession, a tenant* being answerable to a person so repairing or fitting up at two or three removes. —
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ...
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Another tenant is a person, not a thing, not part of the amenities.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Where, According to Tort Law, Should Accused Criminals and Ex-Convicts Live?
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On the rare occasions when we actually have a deadline, because a tenant is arriving, or some such, I do give advance (one or two months ') notice and we do reward meeting deadlines when it becomes necessary to have one.
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But Fuller doubted the plan would work in what he described as a tenant's market.
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One kind of tenant is a corporation's back-office operations or an entire division that can be separated from the
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The tenant is very successful so the capitalized percentage of the gross exceeds values of comparable properties in the area.
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Important Case on Compensation for Takings
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If a tenant is too dangerous to be living among the free, the state and only the state should make that determination and restrict his abode.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Where, According to Tort Law, Should Accused Criminals and Ex-Convicts Live?
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Its victims, with grim humor, call it "tenant - house rot."
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