Tenant



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 房客
• ［英］ n. 房客 ( one that pays rent to use property owned by another)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from present participle of tenir to hold
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. one who holds or possesses real estate or sometimes personal property (as a security) by any kind of right
  • b. one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another; specifically one who rents or leases (as a house) from a landlord
• 2. occupant, dweller
• ? tenantless adjective

II. transitive verb

• Date: 1634
• to hold or occupy as or as if as a tenant ; inhabit
• ? tenantable adjective

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