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词汇 tenant
释义 tenant
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈten.ənt/ us /ˈten.ənt/
C2
a person who pays rent for the use of land or a building租户;佃户;房客
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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Renting property
absentee landlord
BTL
co-tenant
fiefdom
flatshare
key money
lease
leasehold
lessee
letting
lodge
lodger
rent strike
rental
renter
sitting tenant
subtenant
tenancy
tenanted
untenanted

tenant | American Dictionary


tenant
noun[ C ]
us/ˈten·ənt/
a person who rents a room, a building, or land:
For years, they were tenants on my father’s property.

tenant | Business English


tenant
noun[ C ]
 LAW, PROPERTYuk /ˈtenənt/us
a person or organization that uses a building or land and pays rent to its owner:
We are hoping to lease the four-story building to a single tenant when it's completed this fall.
Both parties, landlord and tenant, will be bound by any express terms in the contract.

See also


anchor tenant
life tenant
prime tenant
sitting tenant
statutory tenant

Examples of tenant


tenant
The substantial and middling tenants at this time would have held on long leases, typically of 11 or 19 years.
The difference in wealth between landlord and tenant might be so large as to allow the former to impose whatever contract he wants.
The landlord once suggested that a relative of his would be prepared to swap property with the tenants.
The number of tenants with 1 acre remains static (perhaps through data problems).
The data had also stated that 35,931 tenants had received thirty-year leases to land that was privately endowed.
Many of these improvements were carried out on the home farm, but encouragement to innovate on tenant farms can also be seen.
It provides means-tested rent assistance for low-income tenants in private and social rented housing.
Again, we have a straight conflict between lords and tenants over the customary rights of each.
The latter drew an income derived mainly from money-rents from tenants, which were untouched by the abolition of ' feudalism ' in 1798.
The age and gender profiles of tenants in the different areas were similar.
In 1747, the system of land tenure by which a tenant could be summoned for military service, known as hereditary ward-holding, was abolished.
For the larger tenant, continued occupancy was secure under the lease system and, as such, they had less cause to mobilise concepts of hereditary right.
They provide a different perspective than the many newspaper reports of the time describing lavish dinners for tenants on rent day.
Not entirely unexpectedly, the articulation by some of self-concept\\image entailed express or implied criticisms of tenants.
As a result of these programs, more than 80% of all tenancy disputes led to partial or complete tenant victory.
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Collocations withtenant


tenant

These are words often used in combination with tenant.

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commercial tenant
We should right the balance between the commercialtenant and the commercial landlord.
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current tenant
That was a very difficult decision to make, as it was not possible to balance the interests of the currenttenant and of future tenants.
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fellow tenant
Indeed, occasions were observed when tenants behaved or spoke of themselves as of superior status to fellow tenants.
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