1) tenant, tenet. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...little trouble in writing, but in speech the nasal in the unstressed second syllable of tenant may sometimes be hard to hear and so make tenant, meaning a renter,...
2) se-tenant. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...sheet but differing in design, color, value, or overprint. French : se, reflexive pron. + tenant, present participle of tenir, to hold.se-tenant -ADJECTIVE...
3) tenant. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...TRANSITIVE & tr. & intr.v.Inflected forms: ten·ant·ed, ten·ant·ing, ten·ants To hold as a tenant or be a tenant. Middle English, from Old French, from present participle...
4) tenant farming. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition.
2002
...tenant farming Farming by a farmer who rents rather than owns the land. 1...
5) tenant farmer. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...One who farms land owned by another and pays rent in cash or in kind....
6) 35. The rat is the concisest tenant. Part Two: Nature. Dickinson, Emily.
1924. Complete Poems
...THE RAT is the concisest tenant. He pays no rent,— Repudiates the obligation, On schemes intent. Balking our wit 5 To sound or circumvent, Hate cannot harm A foe...
7) 1852, June 30. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...for Griffith's valuation of landholdings throughout Ireland, which helped to rationalize the tenant and landholder problems. 1 Sept. 8-9 Tenant League conference...
8) XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land. Smith, Adam. 1909-14. Wealth of Nations.
The Harvard Classics
...RENT, considered as the price paid for the use of land, is naturally the highest which the tenant can afford to pay in the actual circumstances of the land. In adjusting...
9) Ryot. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...A tenant in India who pays a usufruct for his occupation. The Scripture parable of the husbandmen refers to such a tenure; the lord sent for his rent, which was not...
10) XII. The Bohemians— Tenement-House Cigarmaking. Riis, Jacob A. 1890. How
the Other Half Lives
...Jewtown as the pretext for circumventing the law that was made to benefit and relieve the tenant, we have not far to go to find it in even a worse rôle. If the tenement...
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