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Tenant

One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.

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Boarder 76% connected

One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

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Cotenant 76% connected

A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.

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Leaseholder 76% connected

A tenant under a lease.

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Lessee 76% connected

The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.

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Lodger 76% connected

One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.

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Roomer 76% connected

A lodger.

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Dwell 76% connected

To delay; to linger.

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Holder 76% connected

One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.

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Inhabit 76% connected

To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.

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Live 76% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Occupant 76% connected

One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing.

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Occupier 76% connected

One who occupies, or has possession.

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Payer 76% connected

One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

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Populate 76% connected

Populous.

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Resident 76% connected

Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the…

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Engage 74% connected

To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

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Engage 74% connected

To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

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Lease 74% connected

To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.

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Lease 74% connected

To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.

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Renter 74% connected

One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.

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Renter 74% connected

One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.

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Tenancy 74% connected

A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.

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Tenancy 74% connected

A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.

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Tenantry 74% connected

The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.

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Tenantry 74% connected

The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.

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Renter 92% connected

One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.

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