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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

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