tenantten‧ant /ˈtenənt/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
Word Origin
The desk was left by the previous tenant.
Word OriginWORD ORIGINtenant
ExamplesOrigin:
1300-1400 Old French present participle of tenir ‘to hold’, from Latin tenere; ➔ TENACIOUSEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- 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.
- 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.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who lives in a place► population
Collocations all the people in a country or town or area, or the number of people who live in it: · In Ghana 46% of the population is under 16 years of age.· The patients have been isolated to keep the disease from spreading to the rest of the population.population of: · The population of Singapore is almost 3 million.the adult/Muslim/black etc population (=all the people in a place who are adult, Muslim etc): · Ninety percent of the adult population is literate.population growth: · The U.S. has a rate of population growth that is five times that of Europe.
► resident someone who lives in a particular area of a town, a particular street or building etc: · Local residents are protesting about the new road.· Parking spaces are for residents only.resident of: · Residents of Glacier Bay are complaining about the pollution caused by cruise ships.
► inhabitant written one of the people who live in a place, especially in a town or city or in an area of a country: · Copenhagen has about 1.4 million inhabitants.· This is a poor rural area, with only one doctor per 10,000 inhabitants.inhabitant of: · Nearly 36% of the inhabitants of Saudi Arabia are resident foreigners.
► citizen someone who lives in a particular country or city and who has the right to be protected by its laws: · The police asked if we were both British citizens.citizen of: · The court's ruling should be of interest to every citizen of Texas.
► local informal someone who lives in a particular area, especially in a village or small town: · If you get lost just ask one of the locals for directions.· Denver International Airport was built in an area that locals call "Tornado Alley."
► tenant someone who lives in a house, flat, or room and regularly pays money to the person who owns it: · Tenants are not allowed to keep pets.· Have you found any tenants for your house yet?tenant of: · Twelve tenants of the Lockwood housing complex are taking part in the lawsuit against their landlord.
► occupant formal someone who lives in a particular house, room etc: · They have left all the furniture and carpets in the house for the next occupant.occupant of: · Occupants of the building are understandably upset about the high-rise going up next door.
► occupier especially British formal the person who lives in a particular house, flat etc - used especially in official documents: · The document has to be signed by the occupier of every household.owner-occupier (=someone who lives in a house that they own): · The new law affects everyone from tenants to owner-occupiers.
► squatter someone who lives in an empty building without paying rent and without having permission to live there: · Police have removed over 50 squatters from the housing estate.· Squatters insist that without their work, the buildings would have deteriorated to the point of being unusable.
► settler someone who goes to live in a place that people have never lived in before: · Many of the earliest settlers here dies from disease and hunger.· Settlers found a plentiful supply of fruit and game in the nearby forests.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► joint
someone who lives in a house, room etc and pays rent to the person who owns it → landlord: · 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.
The desk was left by the previous tenant.