someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
<noun.person> the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent
a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
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any occupant who dwells in a place
<noun.person> [ verb ]
occupy as a tenant
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Tenant \Ten"ant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tenanted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tenanting}.] To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
Sir Roger's estate is tenanted by persons who have served him or his ancestors. --Addison.
Tenant \Ten"ant\, n. [F. tenant, p. pr. of tenir to hold. See {Tenable}, and cf. {Lieutenant}.] 1. (Law) 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. --Blount. Wharton.
2. One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant. ``Sweet tenants of this grove.'' --Cowper.
The hhappy tenant of your shade. --Cowley.
The sister tenants of the middle deep. --Byron.
{Tenant in capite} [L. in in + capite, abl. of caput head, chief.], or {Tenant in chief}, by the laws of England, one who holds immediately of the king. According to the feudal system, all lands in England are considered as held immediately or mediately of the king, who is styled lord paramount. Such tenants, however, are considered as having the fee of the lands and permanent possession. --Blackstone.
{Tenant in common}. See under {Common}.
"Some people don't understand what they read," said Mrs. Smith, head of the tenant association. "I feel like somebody is ballooning things out of proportion.
Many obsolete older buildings may never see another tenant, as they cannot compete with a plethora of new ones. Go east of Potters Bar or the A23, however, and such excesses disappear.
Spiegel, in the Feb. 12 article entitled "Fear of Rent Sharks," said a West German homeowner had armed himself with a special spray to fend off his East German tenant's ferocious dog.
By early this year, Dynabook could keep going only with the help of $500,000 from a landlord so eager to fill an empty building that he didn't notice his tenant was crumbling.
The Bank of Tokyo is a long term tenant of the office block.
The chancellor had discovered that a tenant of his was a 'sex therapist'.
The original lease must be 'long' (more than 21 years), the ground rent low, and the rateable value below Pounds 1,500 - or just above that if you can show that the marginal added value came from improvements you had made as tenant (leaseholder).
Was the valuer proposing that we should pay the rates for the new tenant?
"There's a sense of ownership and responsibility." Bromley-Heath residents have no quarrel with tenant ownership in principle; the project's tenant-directors considered trying the idea at one abandoned building in the project.
Rockefeller Center is threatened with the loss of its oldest and second-largest tenant.
Police said they had pinpointed an 11th-floor apartment as the source of the shots and sent hostage negotiators to talk to a disgruntled tenant, but the man did not respond.
Heritage Plaza was completed in 1986 but has yet to attract a large tenant.
In an ideal situation, the property is pre-let to a financially strong tenant.
In the worst cases, landlords have allowed many months of arrears to build up, and made no serious attempt to force the present tenant to pay.
For example, some real-estate developers are arranging "shared tenant" service, which gives home buyers a price break on phone and related services.
The church claims that a former tenant illegally sold his user rights to the building to the settlers.
But some days, I just get disgusted." The stressful situation recently landed tenant association president Lee DuLimba in the hospital with a burst ulcer.
While on the job in early May, Larson said he was greeted with a cloud of marijuana smoke when a tenant opened his door.
"You'll need a bulldozer to get me out," one tenant said at a community meeting Sunday.
This covers both the inside and outside of the buildings, including structural items. In many other parts of Europe, the tenant is not responsible for the cost of repairs to the external walls and maintenance or the structure of the building.
HUD Secretary Kemp says it isn't his aim to "force tenant ownership down the residents' throats" at Bromley-Heath or elsewhere.
'In general, the recovery is patchy,' he said. Mr Heawood's caution about tenant demand is echoed by several regional agents, who are pointing to a weak and fragmented recovery.
The drug agency was the only tenant in the building.
The wake at the funeral home began three hours after a Bronx Civil Court refused to let the landlord of the social club reclaim the establishment until it decides whether the late tenant's widow should replace her husband in an eviction suit.
If the tenant doesn't have a bona fide lease, "we can bring an eviction action," she said.
And the developer lost a potential anchor tenant, General Electric Co.'s National Broadcasting Co. unit, because the network feared that the area's vociferous residents might stop the project.
Fifteen months after American International Group agreed to become the anchor tenant in a major development proposed for downtown Brooklyn, the company has changed its mind.
Plans for a massive complex overlooking Central Park were scaled back when Salomon Brothers Inc., the tenant and co-developer, withdrew.
The LAPD thinks Rawlins is responsible for the death of a tenant hanged in one of his buildings.
He said the company hasn't been able to find a new tenant.