tenantnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈten.ənt/us/ˈten.ənt/C2 a person who pays rent for the use of land or a building
Examples
- Tenants are complaining that vital repairs are not being done.
- They formed a tenants association.
- He was cruel to his tenants.
- Tenants had to give part of their harvest to the landowners.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Renting property
- fiefdom
- freehold
- key money
- landlady
- landlord
- lease
- leaseback
- leaseholder
- lessee
- lessor
- letting
- lodger
- rent
- rent strike
- rental
- rented
- renter
- shorthold
- sublet
- tenancy
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