(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a week in Birmingham, £19 in Hertfordshire and £24 in Wandsworth; a total of 55,000 tenants have had housing benefit withdrawn in London.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.
Unfree
Definition:
(a.) Not free; held in bondage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rushdie, however, seems strangely unwilling to make the same concession to Mo Yan as, from the vantage point of his "free" society, he repeatedly condemns a fellow novelist working in an "unfree" one.
(2) "Our sister will have died in vain if all that is happening after is our fear is greater and ladies are more unfree," said Deepti Anand, a 21-year-old student in Delhi who has attended demonstrations most days in recent weeks.
(3) That should give encouragement to all the children being miseducated in failing “free schools”, which are so named in contrast to the miserably unfree majority of schools, obliged to employ qualified teachers and teach a broad factual curriculum.
(4) Millions of Zimbabweans went to the polls on Wednesday in an election that opponents of Africa's oldest leader, Robert Mugabe, condemned as "illegal, illegitimate, unfree and unfair".
(5) Some insisted that while woman was “unfree”, man must “ever be a slave”.
(6) The one chapter in the Charter which specifically protected the unfree was less than it seemed.
(7) "We've already made clear this election is illegal, illegitimate, unfree and unfair," he said, while still predicting an MDC victory.
(8) As far as Magna Carta was concerned, both king and lords remained perfectly free to dispossess their unfree tenants at will.
(9) Indeed, the unfree villeins, who made up perhaps half the population, did not formally share in those benefits at all.
(10) Nonetheless, the extensive condemnation of Mo Yan in the west assumes that writers in the "unfree" world should devote themselves to specific "tasks", most importantly, human rights abuses by their governments – a peremptory apportioning of literary duties that is worthy of Marshal Zhdanov, the hatchet man of socialist realism.
(11) In particular, psychoanalytic theory is able to account for the existence of causal laws governing all aspects of human behavior, while providing a schema by which we can distinguish rational from irrational behavior, and free acts from those that are unfree.
(12) It did not propose a "moral equivalence" between what he calls "free" and "unfree" societies.
(13) I stand before you today as a woman unfree, in spite of the location of my birth here in the European Union, a colony of the British empire, the island of Ireland, Eire.
(14) But this was less helpful to the unfree than it seemed.
(15) Thanks to our gloriously unfree media, it is impossible to have a rational conversation about Jeremy Corbyn, Labour or just politics full stop.
(16) Difficult as it was for Mobley’s family and his lawyers to press his case in the unfree legal system of the US-backed past two Yemeni governments, they at least were able to see Mobley in Sana’a’s central prison.