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Tenant
01
someone who pays rent to live in someone else's house, room, etc.
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Human
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
tenants
Examples
As a tenant, he's responsible for keeping the apartment clean.
02
an occupant residing in a place, typically a building or property
Examples
The apartment building had several tenants, each occupying their own unit on different floors.
03
a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
to tenant
01
occupy as a tenant
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
tenant
3rd person singular
tenants
Present participle
tenanting
Past simple
tenanted
Past participle
tenanted
Lexical Tree
cotenant
tenantry
tenant
