1. 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";
   - renter
    
2. A holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
   "The tenant farmer worked the land he leased from the property owner"
    
3. Any occupant who dwells in a place
   "The tenants complained about the lack of hot water in the apartment building"
    
4. (computing) a client, organization, or user group that occupies a specific isolated environment within a shared software or cloud infrastructure
   "The software supports multiple tenants, each with their own customized settings"

1. Occupy as a tenant
   "The young couple tenanted the small apartment for two years"

Derived forms: tenanted, tenants, tenanting

Type of: dwell, holder, inhabit, live, occupant, occupier, payer, payor, populate, remunerator, resident

Encyclopedia: Tenant