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tenant
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[ noun ] someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
Synonyms Examples "the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent" Used in print (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)When the sun came_out , Stevie strode proudly into Orange_Square , smiling like a landlord on industrious tenants . (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)You have your paper horn clutched in your big , craggy fist , and for your entrance you have planned a noisy , colorful and exuberant greeting to your friends and tenants . We 'd seen his handiwork out in the back_yard , and the little his tenants had told us of him did make him sound a_little special . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)It is , I am reliably given to understand , the technical argot for those who engage in your particular branch of the boost ; i.e. , burglars who rob while the tenants are absent , in contrast to hot slough prowlers , those who work while the occupants are home . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (housing) occupy as a tenant
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[ noun ] a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
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[ noun ] any occupant who dwells in a place
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