tenant
tenant — noun
1. someone who rents a house, apartment, office, or piece of land from its owner by
someone who rents a house, apartment, office, or piece of land from its owner by making regular payments
The tenant signed a one-year lease for the apartment near the university.
collocation: sign a lease
Landlords must give tenants at least 24 hours' notice before entering the property.
tenant + landlord pair
Nila complained to her landlord about the broken heating in her flat.
The building's tenants formed a group to ask for better maintenance services.
As a tenant, Sumin had to pay a deposit of two months' rent.
文法句型
a + tenant
the + tenant(s)
tenant of + place
常見錯誤
tenant — verb
1. to live in or use a house, office, or piece of land by paying rent to the owner
to live in or use a house, office, or piece of land by paying rent to the owner — for example, the upper floors of an old building are tenanted by several law firms
The old factory building is tenanted by several small design studios.
passive: be tenanted by
Only two of the six shops in the new mall are currently tenanted.
common in passive reporting
The Watanabe family tenanted that farmland for more than forty years.
The upper floor of the building was tenanted by a medical clinic.
- rent
the everyday verb for paying money to use a property; far more common than 'tenant' in active voice
- lease
implies a formal written agreement for a fixed period, usually for commercial or long-term residential use
- occupy
broader — can mean simply living or working in a space without necessarily paying rent
- vacate
to leave a property empty; the opposite of occupying it as a tenant
文法句型
be tenanted by + person/group
tenant + property
用法筆記
Most common in the passive voice ('be tenanted by') or past participle ('fully tenanted'). In everyday speech, 'rent' or 'lease' are far more common active verbs — this verb appears mainly in legal documents, property listings, and formal news reports.