Tenant vs. Resident

Tenant and Resident Definitions
Tenant
One that pays rent to use or occupy land, a building, or other property owned by another.
Resident
A diplomatic official residing in a foreign seat of government.
Tenant
A dweller in a place; an occupant.
Resident
A colonial official acting as adviser to the ruler of a protected state, often having quasi-gubernatorial powers.
Tenant
To hold as a tenant or be a tenant.
Resident
A member of an intelligence-gathering or nonuniformed law enforcement agency who resides and oversees operations in a certain locale
The FBI resident in St. Louis.
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Tenant
One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
Resident
One who lives in a dormitory.
Tenant
(by extension) One who has possession of any place.
Resident
A physician receiving specialized clinical training in a hospital, usually after completing an internship.
Tenant
(computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
Multi-tenant hosting
Resident
A nonmigratory bird or other animal.
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Tenant
One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
Resident
Dwelling in a particular place; residing
Resident aliens.
Tenant
One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
Resident
Living somewhere in connection with duty or work.
Tenant
Misconstruction of tenet
Resident
Filling a particular role in a group or organization
The museum's official resident poet.
The office's resident gossipmonger.
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Tenant
To hold as, or be, a tenant.
Resident
Inherently present
Resident anxieties.
Tenant
(transitive) To inhabit.
Resident
Nonmigratory
Resident fauna.
Tenant
One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; - correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
Resident
A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
Tenant
One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
The hhappy tenant of your shade.
The sister tenants of the middle deep.
Resident
A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
Tenant
To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
Sir Roger's estate is tenanted by persons who have served him or his ancestors.
Resident
A physician receiving specialized medical training.
She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.
Tenant
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
Resident
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
Tenant
A holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
Resident
(legal) A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
Tenant
Any occupant who dwells in a place
Resident
(espionage) rezident
Tenant
Occupy as a tenant
Resident
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
Resident in the city or in the country
Resident
Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
He is our resident computer expert.
Resident
(obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
Resident
Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.
Resident
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; - opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.
Resident
Fixed; stable; certain.
One there still resident as day and night.
Resident
One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.
Resident
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; - a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.
Resident
Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
Resident
A physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital;
The resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital
Resident
Living in a particular place;
Resident aliens
Resident
Used of animals that do not migrate