(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a week in Birmingham, £19 in Hertfordshire and £24 in Wandsworth; a total of 55,000 tenants have had housing benefit withdrawn in London.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.
Unoccupied
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We’ve identified private accommodation that can be used to house refugees; we’ve set aside rented accommodation, university flats and unoccupied housing association homes for use by refugees.
(2) R units are either occupied (RO) or unoccupied (RU); C units are either active (CA) or inactive (CI).
(3) In immunoprecipitation experiments, one tested antiserum bound unoccupied as well as 17 beta-estradiol-occupied rERs, indicating that this region is exposed in both receptor forms.
(4) The most intense labelling for unoccupied PRs was in the condensed chromatin.
(5) I have repeatedly explained to BT that the house was unoccupied at the time the calls were made.
(6) Sequential application of standard unoccupied site blocking, antibody incubation, and washing steps resulted in significant losses of all growth factors (46-98%).
(7) On Day 12 of the oestrous cycle corpora lutea were collected and luteal progesterone concentrations, unoccupied receptors for LH and number and sizes of steroidogenic and non-steroidogenic luteal cell types were determined.
(8) The energy level of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of the delta 3 esters also correlated with log k12.
(9) The unoccupied higher and lower mobility forms of the receptor, designated R and D, are considered to be in rapid equilibrium with liganded forms, designated RL and DL.
(10) We conclude that unoccupied alpha 2 M receptors are diffusely distributed on the cell surface.
(11) After the capture of analyte, the unoccupied antibody sites are blocked by the addition of an excess amount of betatype.
(12) The hybridization was visualized by additional binding of avidin-FITC (fluorescein) to the unoccupied biotinylated human DNA bound to the human chromosomes.
(13) Unoccupied estrogen receptors and progesterone receptors were measured in the cytoplasm of five sections along the length of endometrium obtained from noncancerous, premenopausal hysterectomy specimens.
(14) Unoccupied nonactivated receptors are thought to be weakly bound to nuclei of target cells from which they are leaking during tissue fractionation and thus found in the cytosol fraction of homogenates in a nontransformed heterooligomeric "8-9 S" form, which includes hsp90.
(15) We used cell enucleation of two human breast cancer-derived cell lines, MCF-7 and T47D, to determine whether the unoccupied receptors were also nuclear in these cells and to determine whether the weak estrogen phenol red, present in nearly all tissue culture media, affected the distribution of the receptors seen with this technique.
(16) Empty Belgravia Extraordinarily expensive houses owned by people with properties in several other countries, such that they are usually unoccupied.
(17) One of these forms was predominant following short incubations (2 h) with [3H]TCDD at a low temperature (0 degree C) and was characterized by having the same elution profile on DEAE-Sepharose as the unoccupied form, but demonstrated some affinity for DNA.
(18) Both unoccupied oestradiol receptors (measured by separating bound from free hormone with dextran-coated charcoal; DCC) and 'total' receptor populations (as measured by an enzyme immunoassay) were measured in each fibroid and adjoining myometrium.
(19) The unoccupied receptors for all three hormones were recovered instead in the nucleus-containing cell fragments (nucleoplasts).
(20) Now the children have left they have two unoccupied rooms, so the amount of rent for which they can claim housing benefit has been reduced by 25%.