Synonyms for tenant
ˈtɛn əntten·ant

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1. tenantnoun

   Synonyms:
   lessee

2. tenantnoun

   To hold as, or be, a tenant.

   Synonyms:
   lessee

3. tenantnoun

   One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.

   Synonyms:
   lessee

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1. tenant

   Synonyms:
   occupant, lessee, occupier, resident, dweller

   Antonyms:
   owner, landlord, lessor

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1. tenant, renternoun

   someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else

   "the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent"

   Synonyms:
   renter

2. tenantnoun

   a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)

   Synonyms:
   renter

3. tenantverb

   any occupant who dwells in a place

   Synonyms:
   renter

4. tenantverb

   occupy as a tenant

Matched Categories

1. • Holder
   • Inhabit
   • Payer

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1. tenantnoun

   Synonyms:
   occupier, occupant, resident, dweller, lessee, renter

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1. List of paraphrases for "tenant":

   lessee, tenants, renter, renters, lodger, lessees, occupant, boarder, user, charterer

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1. Mario Andretti:

   What I like is that it focuses on the positives and it reinforces the universal tenant that good does triumph over evil.

2. Joseph Strasburg:

   Owners recognize and support the need to help tenants without sufficient financial resources to pay rent due to job loss or health circumstances. However, this proposed bill extends the eviction moratorium for residential tenants based on the submission of a simple declaration of financial hardship without proving such hardship caused by COVID-related job loss or income reduction, with no requirement of proof that the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected their income, and no income limitation to qualify for eviction protection, a tenant whose household income went from a half-million dollars to $250,000 would qualify for eviction protection by declaring that their income has been significantly reduced.

3. Michele Hunter:

   Rental agreements often have clauses that allow landlords to invalidate a lease if it’s discovered that the tenant lied on an application, so I assume if the tenant has a pig roast, they could accuse the tenant of fraud on the rental application.

4. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman:

   The current real-estate boom ... is not like the real-estate booms we have seen before, it is not going down. This is the landlord-tenant equivalent of climate change.

5. Hillary Clinton:

   Nor are these policies rooted in religion, in fact, those who selectively use the Bible to justify this cruelty are ignoring a central tenant of Christianity.