What's the difference between dweller and tenant?

Dweller


Definition:

  • (n.) An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This article summarizes the increased absorption levels of mercury among dwellers of Ciudad Cristiana Housing Project in Humacao, Puerto Rico confirming the exposition to the metal as documented by sediment analysis of the area performed by the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board.
  • (2) In others, Delhi’s slum-dwellers were left unacknowledged.
  • (3) Emphysema appeared to be more prevalent in lowland than highland dwellers.
  • (4) The survey of a population including 40-59-old males, dwellers from the rural areas of the Tien Shan and Pamirs low- and highlands, has demonstrated that atherogenic dyslipoproteinemias are significantly more infrequently encountered among high-altitude dwellers than among low-altitude ones.
  • (5) On the contrary, not all country dwellers are Tories; and fat cats, often Tory, will be rubbing their hands at the thought of asset-stripping another national resource.
  • (6) • the following correction was published on 30 October 2011: People and numbers: "Global growth fears put to the test" (News) said Africa "had fewer than 500,000 urban dwellers in 1950", but the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa puts the figure at 14.9% of total population – 33 million.
  • (7) But indigenous and environmental groups claim Belo Monte will displace tens of thousands of river-dwellers and bring violence and social chaos to the Amazon state of Para.
  • (8) Urban dwellers had a higher prevalence of abnormal smears (15%) compared with town camp and rural women (2%).
  • (9) As the Reuters news agency reports: With a 100 percent record so far, the British-born aquarium dweller at Sea Life in Oberhausen, western Germany has become a celebrity having correctly predicted a series of German wins and even Germany's surprise group stage loss to Serbia.
  • (10) What the rest of the world considers acceptable climate change is, quite simply, a disaster for atoll dwellers.
  • (11) The LA river will never compete with the Danube or Seine or Thames as an attraction for stressed city-dwellers.
  • (12) Presently, 33% of urban city dwellers live in slums or shantytowns.
  • (13) But there are concerns in the region about the impact of the new arrivals in urban areas and emerging tensions between the newcomers and existing town-dwellers.
  • (14) Random sample of 2,792 community dwellers aged 65 and over (participation rate: 69%).
  • (15) Corals are crucial to the livelihoods of millions of coastal dwellers around the world.
  • (16) However, important and unexplained differences in glucose tolerance remained between rural and periurban coastal dwellers after taking these factors into account.
  • (17) Filaria surveys conducted in some select slum clusters namely Hari Nagar, Yamuna pusht near Vijaya Ghat along the Ring Road and Timarpur in Delhi during 1989, 1991 and 1992 respectively, covering a population of approximately 5000 slum dwellers revealed the presence of bancroftian microfilaria (mf) carriers and disease cases.
  • (18) The first Latin American pontiff, who once worked with slum dwellers in his home city of Buenos Aires , Argentina, expressed solidarity with the residents of the Varginha favela in northern Rio de Janeiro, where he received a rapturous welcome.
  • (19) Zymodemes considered to be non-pathogenic (I and XVI) were identified in 34 of 37 isolates from slum dwellers and were not associated with blood in the stools.
  • (20) In 2011, they published a study in the journal Nature showing that, compared to people who live in the countryside, city-dwellers are hyperactive in a region of the brain called the amygdala, which is linked to depression and anxiety.

Tenant


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
  • (v. t.) To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (2) They also claim their electricity and water were cut off, despite frequent official complaints to police, who Lessena said served as middlemen between the owners and the tenants.
  • (3) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
  • (4) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
  • (5) If you and your mother are joint tenants, when she dies you will become the sole owner of the whole property even if her will says that she is leaving her share to someone else.
  • (6) A separate DWP-commissioned report, by the Institute of Fiscal Studies , on the impact of housing benefit caps for private sector tenants was welcomed by ministers as a sign that fears that the reform would lead to mass migration out of high-rent areas like London were unfounded.
  • (7) The average housing benefit withdrawal varies across the country, with the figure reaching £15.64 a week in Birmingham, £19 in Hertfordshire and £24 in Wandsworth; a total of 55,000 tenants have had housing benefit withdrawn in London.
  • (8) • Plans to consult on increasing discounts under right to buy – the scheme which allows social housing tenants to buy their properties.
  • (9) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
  • (10) RBH's first membership meeting, at which tenants and employees could sign up to join the mutual, was oversubscribed.
  • (11) Vulnerability: For an average social landlord with general needs housing about 40% of the rent roll is tenant payment (the remainder being paid direct by housing benefit).
  • (12) It also represents the legalisation of a two-tiered system of tenants' rights – those who can afford to have rights and those who can't."
  • (13) Lord Freud said government research suggested receiving housing welfare payments direct would be entirely new for only around 20% of tenants, and the pilot projects will evaluate how to support these people.
  • (14) After a one-year interval, a structured interview designed to assess the quality of life was again conducted with most of the tenants in a single-room occupancy hotel in New York City.
  • (15) Phil Morgan, director, Phil Morgan Consulting Phil is the former executive director of tenant services at the Tenant Services Authority.
  • (16) Getting the tenant out does not avoid the need for compliance.
  • (17) Every tenant's story is different, but there are a number of strands that feature regularly among complaints.
  • (18) And it says the eligibility of his tenant to live in the flat has never been assessed.
  • (19) Many tenants feel they have been given far too little information about their rights, with very few knowing they have a right to appeal against decisions about withdrawal of housing benefit until April 2014.
  • (20) It is critical that landlords and government think deeply about the evident anxiety tenants have about receiving their rent directly,” the report warns.