What's the difference between tenant and untenant?
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a week in Birmingham, £19 in Hertfordshire and £24 in Wandsworth; a total of 55,000 tenants have had housing benefit withdrawn in London.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.
Untenant
Definition:
(v. t.) To remove a tenant from.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government did not spell out the need for private holders of bank debt to take any losses – known as haircuts – under its plans but many analysts believe that this position is untenable.
(2) "The situation we face at the moment is untenable," said Abdulghani Iryani, a political analyst.
(3) But the theory that this meant Salmond's Scottish National party government had agreed to free Megrahi was untenable, Darling said.
(4) By delineating the structuring of this dilemma, in the context of a human studying the sensing of chemicals by bacteria, the author demonstrates that the untenable assumption mentioned above does underlie the traditional Western viewpoints; and this demonstration suffices to show the traditional Western 'World-View' as fundamentally flawed.
(5) In my view his continued position on the group board was untenable."
(6) "I had received sufficient comment and concern from a wide circle of people, both within the cathedral and through the town and county, to have arrived at the opinion that your position is untenable," she wrote.
(7) Continuation of the study as originally structured, with nonselective SF-PV use, became ethically untenable when it was appreciated that results in black patients and patients with excessively large grafts were markedly inferior and that construction of 3 cm moderately tapered anastomoses significantly reduced the incidence of distal anastomotic hyperplasia.
(8) Now that it has proved to be untenable on its principal points, however, it should be abandoned.
(9) Mackay's authority was undermined from that point and his position became untenable when he was issued with an email at the start of last week, ordering him to resign or face being sacked.
(10) They describe the government's view as an "untenable interpretation of the UN charter which would have destabilising effects for the UN collective security system".
(11) Jakob Augstein, a German commentator and publisher, wrote last week on Spiegel Online that if the CDU is ousted in the "conservative heartland" of Baden-Württemberg, her position will be untenable.
(12) Clapper’s defenders have said that Wyden placed the director in an untenable position by publicly querying him about a secret program, making his options either to lie or to decline to answer publicly, which they say would amount to public confirmation of a secret intelligence activity.
(13) Arguments are presented which show that conformations II and III proposed by Lee and Tinoco [Lee, C.H., and Tinoco, I., Jr. (1977), Biochemistry 16, 5403] for ribodinucleoside monophosphates in aqueous solution are untenable.
(14) My head has been very understanding, but the recent months have made my job untenable and therefore I have been forced to resign.
(15) He also called on the club’s fans to make their feelings known, adding: “I would like to invite Blackpool fans to write and sign an open letter for exclusion of such an attitude towards football fans.” Belokon’s comments come after Smith, who is a spokesperson for the Tangerine Knights group which published the messages on their Facebook page, insisted Oyston’s position had become “untenable”.
(16) The member of the Football Association's inclusion advisory board who initially called for Richard Scudamore to be charged over sexist emails has said the Premier League chief executive's position is now untenable.
(17) While McClaren’s position will be untenable if this persists, it is tempting to wonder whether his team is simply unmanageable.
(18) They both suggest a rise of 2C is completely untenable for us," said Dessima Williams, a Grenadian diplomat speaking for Aosis.
(19) However, others take a more hardline view and have made people shift to buy-to-let deals, which obviously would make the whole venture untenable.
(20) The results suggest that the talkers used more effort in producing speech in the anesthetic condition and are untenable with the idea that intraoral air pressure constitutes an important feedback parameter in controlling articulation.