tenant
Other forms: tenants; tenanted; tenanting
A tenant is someone who lives in a place owned by someone else, usually paying rent. If you blast your music and let the cat pee in the corner, your landlord will not think that you're a very good tenant.
Tenant is often used to mean "renter," but it can mean anyone who has the right to live in a particular place, either because he signed a lease, which is a rental agreement, because he owns the land, or because government gave him a title to it. If you live in a big apartment building, you should be aware of your rights as a tenant, which usually include things like having heat in the winter and proper fire escapes.
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someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
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a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)types:cotenantone of two or more tenants holding title to the same propertylife tenanta tenant whose legal right to retain possession of buildings or lands lasts as long as they (or some other person) livetenant farmera farmer who works land owned by someone elsetype of:holdera person who holds something
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any occupant who dwells in a place
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occupy as a tenant
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