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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tenant
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sitting tenant
tenant farmer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
joint
▪ This embraces the situation where a husband and wife own property as joint tenants in equity.
▪ As the surviving joint tenant, Mary Tene inherits the building.
▪ A joint tenancy is severed if a joint tenant disposes of his interest inter vivos.
▪ Finding joint tenants is one alternative to closing even more branches.
▪ Here, when the relevant act of bankruptcy occurred, Mr. Dennis was a beneficial joint tenant of the two properties.
local
▪ That is a patronising approach which would deny widening choice to many local authority tenants.
▪ It has a paternalistic approach to local authority tenants.
▪ On the other hand, subsidies to local authority tenants are progressive in absolute as well as relative terms.
▪ Each additional child makes it more likely that a couple who are not already local authority tenants will become so.
▪ In chapter 7 Murphy shows that net of many other factors local authority tenants still experience added deprivation.
new
▪ It's been re-opened today after 2 years renovation and the new tenants will be paying £15,000 this year alone.
▪ Despite the new tenants, the mission will remain the same, said Vice Adm.
▪ Property owners offered concessions to attract new tenants and renters already in place received no, or modest, rent hikes.
▪ Two weeks later a young married couple were the new tenants filling the house, making themselves at home.
▪ I don't envy the new tenants.
▪ And its new tenant did nothing to reassure her.
original
▪ The tenant's adviser should have in mind and advise the tenant about the obligations assumed by an original tenant.
▪ The two original major tenants needed large floor plates, large single-floor areas which would be side by side.
▪ It is well known that an original tenant remains liable on the covenants in the lease, even after an assignment.
▪ The original tenant of a lease carries even greater burdens.
other
▪ Be shall mow with other tenants the meadow of Ersanyre and shall have his bundle of hay.
▪ The other anchor tenant will be C&A, which has already signed an agreement to move in.
▪ They will exclude the other tenant in common.
▪ Nothing, other than ownership and the secret garden, appears to distinguish them from the other tenants around them.
▪ And this one doesn't really count, considering it's shared with four other tenants.
▪ In all other cases it is advisable to grant tenants easements to use the facilities in common with the other tenants in the building.
▪ Disadvantages include the fact that you have no control over other tenants and the consequences of their habits.
▪ Look for advertisements placed by other tenants wanting to move to the area where you yourself are currently a tenant.
private
▪ Priority population - low income private tenants To reduce exposure to health risks associated with poor living conditions.
▪ And now private tenants in flats can get together to buy the freehold from their landlord too.
▪ The strict rent control, introduced in the war to protect private tenants, was partly lifted during the inter war period.
▪ This is partly because they have fewer rights than other private tenants, and so are less likely to complain.
▪ Yet older people tend to occupy the oldest, poorest housing and are more likely to be private tenants than other groups.
prospective
▪ Furthermore, the current state of the property market encourages landowners and both existing and prospective tenants to strike complex deals.
▪ One of the prospective tenants was Clarke Romans, who wanted to locate a micro-brewery in a secondary building on the property.
▪ However, I must tell you that another prospective tenant has appeared on the scene.
▪ One prospective Worldwide Plaza tenant asked for $ 6. 5 million to compensate its existing landlord for leaving the premises early.
▪ Many landlords in Calcutta, for example, make prospective tenants promise not to burn coal.
▪ Board members advised prospective tenants to try out the units for 48 hours before moving in.
▪ She introduced prospective tenants to properties and arranged lettings.
sitting
▪ Although Mr MacKarness won't confirm it, the Fowlers claim the price was just £70,000 because it came with sitting tenants.
▪ A sitting tenant who came with the greenhouses ... and is doing his bit to keep down the slugs.
▪ It subsequently turned out that it was the sitting tenants who were in danger of harassment.
▪ I can't have sitting tenants.
▪ Like these events in Knowsley North, where the sitting tenant is George Howarth.
▪ After 1979 the Conservatives forced local authorities to sell their houses and flats to sitting tenants.
▪ Feed the sitting tenants to act as a diversion when adding new fish to an aquarium. 3.
statutory
▪ It is said that, not withstanding the order for possession, he was still a statutory tenant.
▪ The rules for succession after the death of a statutory tenant have been changed.
▪ There can now be only one statutory succession after the death of a statutory tenant.
▪ They dealt with cases which did not involve statutory tenants.
▪ That definition makes it clear that a statutory tenant is not the holder of a statutorily protected tenancy.
■ NOUN
authority
▪ That is a patronising approach which would deny widening choice to many local authority tenants.
▪ It has a paternalistic approach to local authority tenants.
▪ On the other hand, subsidies to local authority tenants are progressive in absolute as well as relative terms.
▪ Each additional child makes it more likely that a couple who are not already local authority tenants will become so.
▪ In chapter 7 Murphy shows that net of many other factors local authority tenants still experience added deprivation.
▪ On the first point, local authority tenants who bought their homes are among those least likely to have been repossessed.
farmer
▪ Many farmers and tenant farmers live in big old rambling houses.
▪ Thousands of tenant farmers who have traditionally farmed the land, have already been displaced.
▪ The case of the large organisation versus the tenant farmer is summarised below from a file of 63 letters, plus documents.
▪ It was let to a series of tenant farmers for over two centuries, until the Tremaynes returned in 1914.
▪ Many councillors said they felt compelled to vote against the motion because they believed in the tenant farmers freedom of choice.
▪ Apparently in the old days it was the place where tenant farmers paid their rent to the estate.
▪ This was then worked by tenant farmers, who in turn employed many agricultural labourers.
▪ Born in 1589, he was the son of a small tenant farmer.
life
▪ Assume that trustees of a non-resident trust lend X, the life tenant, £100,000 interest-free.
▪ Under California law the stock dividends were attributed to the life tenant.
▪ This could apply where A is a life tenant under a foreign trust and A was the settlor.
■ VERB
allow
▪ That provision allows owners to evict tenants if the unit is to be occupied by the owner or an immediate relative.
▪ And a handful, including those in Washington and Louisville, have allowed tenants to buy developments.
become
▪ Only when she and her husband separated did she become a potential tenant in her own right.
▪ The question of merging the two clubs has already arisen twice in the three years since Redbridge became tenants at Victoria Road.
▪ At twenty-one he had married Elizabeth Egerton of Tatton and become the tenant of Sledmere for life.
▪ I had become a tenant of my own dream.
▪ On 11 April 1988 they moved to another council house, of which the brother also became a secure tenant.
▪ If, for instance, X enters into Y's property with Y's consent, X becomes a tenant at will.
▪ If X starts to pay a regular sum of money to Y, X may become a periodic tenant.
ensure
▪ If the latter, the tenant should ensure that the landlord completes all works necessary to finish the development.
▪ The tenant should endeavour to ensure that all reasonable and normal risks are covered by the landlord's insurance.
entitle
▪ This would entitle the tenant to have a new tenancy at the then prevailing market rent.
grant
▪ In all other cases it is advisable to grant tenants easements to use the facilities in common with the other tenants in the building.
▪ If the landlord does not grant and the tenant does not take a certain term the grant does not create a lease.
house
▪ The readings were taken from a thermometer issued by Newark and Sherwood District Council to its housing tenants.
▪ But transportation to and from the island is a real challenge, especially for relocated public housing tenants.
let
▪ The one beside the church was used by the sexton and the others were let to tenants.
▪ The Association had constructed properties in the past which were let to tenants, with the right to buy.
▪ Take up references before giving credit, lending money, letting in tenants, taking on staff.
▪ The field which the path has to cross is owned by Wimpey and let out to a tenant farmer.
▪ The house was let to a tenant.
move
▪ Unfortunately the most obvious solution is unlikely to be feasible - councils do not move tenants that easily.
pay
▪ The service charge may be in dispute or there may be an inadvertent omission to pay on the part of the tenant.
▪ And Secretary of State Peter Lilley should also demand that the brewers pay adequate compensation to tenants who refuse to take leases.
▪ The rates were a property tax, paid by tenants and owner occupiers.
require
▪ However, there may be cases where the landlord requires that the tenant should not acquire security of tenure.
▪ The newly inserted clause in the lease required a tenant to vacate the premises on 90 days notice.
▪ Bass, for example, requires a tenant to put down a deposit of £1,000 before he can even contemplate arbitration.
▪ In such circumstances, the lease may require the tenant to make good the costs the landlord incurred.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Tenants are not allowed to keep pets.
▪ Have you found any tenants for your house yet?
▪ Twelve tenants of the Lockwood housing complex are taking part in the lawsuit against their landlord.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Arrears are phenomenal in most authorities, a function of both the impoverishment of tenants and of their rebellion.
▪ Furthermore, the current state of the property market encourages landowners and both existing and prospective tenants to strike complex deals.
▪ Mrs Bujok and her family occupied a house as council tenants.
▪ Some scepticism has been expressed by tenants as to whether independently judged rents will be significantly lower than those asked by brewers.
▪ The tenants were drawn up in rows on the pier.
▪ This also applies to owners taking over responsibility from defaulting tenants, and finance houses taking back property from mortgagors.
▪ When tenants were finally given a vote, they all turned down the idea.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tenant

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.

Tenant

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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tenant

early 14c., "person who holds lands by title or by lease," from Anglo-French tenaunt (late 13c.), Old French tenant "possessor; feudal tenant" (12c.), noun use of present participle of tenir "to hold," from Latin tenere "hold, keep, grasp" (see tenet). Related: Tenancy. Tenant-farmer attested from 1748.

Wiktionary
tenant

n. 1 One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others. 2 One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant. 3 (context legal English) One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership. vb. To hold as, or be, a tenant.

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WordNet
tenant

  1. n. someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else; "the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent" [syn: renter]

  2. a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)

  3. any occupant who dwells in a place

tenant

v. occupy as a tenant

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Wikipedia
Tenant

Tenant may refer to:

  • An occupier of a leasehold estate
  • Tenement (law), the holder of a legal interest in real estate
  • A group of users who share a common access to a software system, see multitenancy
  • Tenant farmer
  • Anchor tenant or anchor store, one of the larger stores in a shopping mall
  • The Tenant, 1976 Roman Polanski film
  • The Tenants (2005 film), 2005 film drama starring Dylan McDermott and Snoop Dogg
  • The Tenants (band), from Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
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Usage examples of "tenant".

Paris in an infinite number of petty questions as to tenants, abutters, liabilities, taxes, repairs, sweepings, decorations for the Fete-Dieu, waste-pipes, lighting, projections over the public way, and the neighborhood of unhealthy buildings.

Russell, of The Scotsman, fulminated against the injustice of refusing a lease to the foremost agriculturist in Scotland--and when you say that you may say of the United Kingdom--because the tenant held certain political opinions and had the courage to express them.

Lord King had recently issued a circular-letter to his tenants, that he would no longer receive bank-notes at par, but that his rents must for the future be paid either in English guineas, or in equivalent weight of Portuguese gold coin, or in bank notes amounting to a sum sufficient to purchase such an equivalent weight of gold.

Winslow, I hope you will consider Babbie and me not merely tenants and neighbors, but friends--real friends.

And Madame Vauthier, formerly cook to the publisher Barbet, one of the hardest lenders of money by the week, slipped along behind her two tenants so as to be able to overtake Godefroid as soon as his conversation with Monsieur Bernard came to an end.

He hired land also of a tenant of the Basha, and sent wool and milk by the hand of a neighbour to the market at Tetuan.

The Beals and I exist by the grace of our tenants, all of whom you have ignored or taxed to the fullest, or we would have starved to death a year ago.

That thought led him to belated recollection of Roger Mac and the new tenants.

John, like all the other local children, had been invited up to the hall for the biannual parties her grandparents gave for their tenants and neighbours.

He glozed the matter thus: he had persuaded the owner it was better to take a good tenant at a moderate loss, than to let the Bijou be uninhabited during the present rainy season.

By letting this conacre land in little patches, a high rent is secured, which the tenants have no option but to promise to pay.

He had a fixed impression that all the tenants robbed him, so whenever he found a bunch of grapes in a cottage he proceeded to beat the occupants unless they could prove that the grapes did not come from his vineyards.

The Clearances emptied these high lands of some fifteen thousand people, most of them crofters, or tenant farmers, whose ancestors had lived here for generations.

Producers of the fruit abroad bearing the said fact in view tie some of the wild fruit when tenanted by the Culex fly to the young cultivated figs.

We went back to the apartment building and, sure enough, found that all of the other recently installed dishwashers had been wired in the same dangerously wrong way, and if they were left that way, they could have eventually electrocuted the tenants.