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A tenant who holds a lease
Answer for the clue "A tenant who holds a lease ", 11 letters:
leaseholder
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who is tenant by holding a lease; a lessee.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leaseholder \Lease"hold`er\, n. A tenant under a lease. -- Lease"hold`ing , a. & n.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tenant who holds a lease [syn: lessee ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Mr Patten has written to the precinct's leaseholder , Eagle Star, asking for it to be refurbished. ▪ The last vestiges of serfdom had disappeared in the sixteenth century, and the peasants farmed the land as leaseholders or sharecroppers. ...
Usage examples of leaseholder.
Andrew had gone on to enjoy one of the cheapest apartments in New York for years, until the leaseholder finally figured out that if he wasn't dead, it must be safe to evict him.
The lease permits government activity closer to Saturn than Pandora, but the leaseholder has the right to prohibit industrial operations.
Instead we buy these closet things from the Alliance for our leaseholders to use, and when they get used up, we trade for new ones.
We're told that the Bureau of Land Management has agreed to withdraw the acreage they hold from grazing—with a payoff to the leaseholders of course.
By resisting effectively, however briefly, the legal leaseholders had made it necessary to put off making any formal seizures for a while.
Instead, tapestries covered the scars and scribbles of centuries of occupation by spacers and leaseholders who were themselves only a handsbreadth above poverty.
The leaseholders, the people who actually farm the land, have gotten the impression that they're going to be thrown off with no compensation.