tenant
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tenant/ˈtenənt/
▶noun a person occupying rented land or property.
■ Law a person in possession of real property by any right or title.
▶verb occupy (property) as a tenant.– derivatives
tenantable adjective (formal),
tenantless adjective.
tenantable adjective (formal),
tenantless adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr., lit. ‘holding’, pres. part. of tenir, from L. tenere.
'tenant' also found in these Oxford entries:
conacre
- cottar
- ejectment
- estovers
- fealty
- heriot
- key money
- lieutenant
- locum tenens
- mesne profits
- predial
- rack
- rent
- ryot
- se-tenant
- sharecropper
- share-farmer
- shorthold
- sitting tenant
- squatter
- statutory tenant
- subtenant
- survivor
- sweat equity
- tenancy
- tenant at will
- tenant farmer
- tenure
- tied
- villein
- waste
- zamindar
