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tenant

Definition

  • noun: a person, business, group, etc., that pays to use another person's property
  • noun: one who holds or possesses real estate or sometimes personal property (as a security) by any kind of right
  • verb: to hold or occupy as or as if as a tenant
  • synonyms: inhabit, dweller, occupant

Examples

  • A 'tenant' is now leasing the apartment.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) South Station. Wait minutes. He just went into a building down the waterfront. Wash. You got that? Wash. Yeah, he went up to the top floor. Building's empty. No tenants here. He's got dope coming in. I don't know where. He... He's getting spooky, captain. - What? - I just saw him. (..)
    2006 The Departed