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 holds rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord. Although a tenant does hold rights to real property, a ...
in real estate
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Tenant-in-chief
In medieval and early modern Europe, the term ''tenant-in-chief'' (or ''vassal-in-chief'') denoted 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 opp ...
, 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 w ...
, the holder of a legal interest in real estate
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Tenant farmer
A tenant farmer is a person (farmer or farmworker) who resides on land owned by a landlord. Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management, ...
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Anchor tenant
In 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 typically located at the ends of malls. W ...
, one of the larger stores in a shopping mall
Film and literature
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The Tenant
''The Tenant'' (French: ''Le locataire'') is a 1976 psychological horror film set in France but filmed in English and directed by Roman Polanski, starring Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, and Shelley Winters. It is based upon the 196 ...
'', 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
Computing systems
*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
*Tenant, a unit of Microsoft
Office 365
Microsoft 365 is a product family of productivity software, collaboration and cloud-based services owned by Microsoft. It encompasses online services such as Outlook.com, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, programs formerly marketed under the name ...
software subscription service
Other uses
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The Tenants (band), 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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