Tenant may refer to:
Real estate
*Tenant, the holder of a
leasehold estate
A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant has rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord. Although a tenant does hold rights to real property, a le ...
in real estate
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Tenant-in-chief
In medieval and early modern Europe, a tenant-in-chief (or vassal-in-chief) was a person who held his lands under various forms of feudal land tenure directly from the king or territorial prince to whom he did homage, as opposed to holding them ...
, in feudal land law
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Tenement (law)
{{Wiktionary, tenement
A tenement (from the Latin tenere ''to hold''), in law, is anything that is held, rather than owned. This usage is a holdover from feudalism, which still forms the basis of property law in many common law jurisdictions, in ...
, the holder of a legal interest in real estate
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Tenant farmer
A tenant farmer is a farmer or farmworker who resides and works on land owned by a landlord, while tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and ma ...
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Anchor tenant
In North American, Australian and New Zealand retail, an "anchor tenant", sometimes called an "anchor store", "draw tenant", or "key tenant", is a considerably larger tenant in a shopping mall, often a department store or retail chain. They are ...
, one of the larger stores in a shopping mall
Film and literature
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The Tenant
''The Tenant'' () is a 1976 French psychological horror thriller film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gérard Brach, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Roland Topor. The film stars Polanski, Isabelle Adj ...
'', 1976 Roman Polanski film
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''The Tenant'' (1957 film), a 1957 Spanish drama film
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''The Tenant'' (novel), a novel by Roland Topor
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''The Tenants'' (2005 film), 2005 film drama starring Dylan McDermott and Snoop Dogg
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''The Tenant'' (2023 film), an Indian film by Sushrut Jain
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''Tenant'' (film), 2024 film starring Satyam Rajesh and Megha Chowdhury
Other uses
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Tenant, lawyers who work from premises of a barristers' chamber
*Tenant, a group of users who share a common access to a
multitenancy
Software multitenancy is a software architecture in which a single instance of software runs on a server and serves multiple tenants. Systems designed in such manner are "shared" (rather than
"dedicated" or "isolated"). A tenant is a group of us ...
software system
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The Tenants (band)
The Tenants are an Australian pub rock band from Bathurst, New South Wales, which formed in 1998. The band won a regional final for Triple J Unearthed in 1998 with the song, "You Shit Me to Tears", which was listed at No. 3 on the Tripl ...
, from Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
See also
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Tenet (disambiguation)
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Tennant (disambiguation)
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Tennent, a surname
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