0 a person who pays rent to another for the use of a house, building, land etc -- người thuê, người mướn
(also adjective) tenant farmers.
That man is a tenant of the estate
Not entirely unexpectedly, the articulation by some of self-concept\image entailed express or implied criticisms of tenants.
They provide a different perspective than the many newspaper reports of the time describing lavish dinners for tenants on rent day.
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.
In 1747, the system of land tenure by which a tenant could be summoned for military service, known as hereditary ward-holding, was abolished.
The age and gender profiles of tenants in the different areas were similar.
The latter drew an income derived mainly from money-rents from tenants, which were untouched by the abolition of ' feudalism ' in 1798.
Again, we have a straight conflict between lords and tenants over the customary rights of each.
It provides means-tested rent assistance for low-income tenants in private and social rented housing.
