A person or organization that rents and occupies land or property from a landlord or owner.
The tenant signed a lease for the apartment.
An inhabitant or occupant of a place, especially in literary or figurative use.
The old barn had many tenants, including bats and mice.
In multi-tenant computing, a distinct customer or subscriber entity that shares a common software or hardware environment while keeping its own data isolated.
Each tenant in the cloud platform can set its own password policies.
tenantverb
To occupy or live in a property as a tenant.
They decided to tenant the apartment for the next year.
tenantadjective
Relating to, intended for, or occupied by tenants.
The city council passed new tenant protection laws.