Tenant vs Proprietor - What's the difference?
tenant | proprietor |
One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
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One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
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* Cowley
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(legal) One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
An owner.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor.
One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner.
(history) One or more persons to whom a colonial territory is assigned, like a fief, including its administration.
As nouns the difference between tenant and proprietor
is that tenant is one who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others while proprietor is an owner.As a verb tenant
is to hold as, or be, a tenant.tenant
English
Alternative forms
* tenaunt (obsolete) * tennant (obsolete) * tennaunt (obsolete)Noun
(Leasehold estate) (en noun)- sweet tenants of this grove
- the happy tenant of your shade
- the sister tenants of the middle deep
Synonyms
* lessee * renter * renteeDerived terms
* tenancy * tenantless * tenantrySee also
* tenetproprietor
English
(wikipedia proprietor)Noun
(en noun)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position. British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins.}}