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tenant Definition


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tenant
noun
    1. Someone who pays rent to another for the use of property or land.
      Thesaurus: occupant, resident, inhabitant, leaseholder, renter, lessee, landholder.
    2. An occupant.
verb
    tenanted, tenanting
    1. To occupy (land, etc) as a tenant.
Derivative: tenanted
adj
    Etymology: 14c: French, from Latin tenere to hold.



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