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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
leaseholder
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.
▪ Where the landlord is himself a leaseholder, the draftsman should have in mind the length of the landlord's own lease.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leaseholder

Leaseholder \Lease"hold`er\, n. A tenant under a lease. -- Lease"hold`ing, a. & n.

Wiktionary
leaseholder

n. A person who is tenant by holding a lease; a lessee.

WordNet
leaseholder

n. a tenant who holds a lease [syn: lessee]

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.