Rent and Tenant

Rent

Rent verb - To give the possession and use of (something) in return for periodic payment.

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Tenant and rent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tenant" instead a verb "Rent".

Nearby Words: rented, rental, renter, renting, rentable

Tenant verb - Occupy as a tenant.

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Rent and tenant are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rent" instead a verb "Tenant".

Nearby Words: tenanted, tenanting, tenancy, tenantry

black	black rent	black tenant
basic	basic rent	basic tenant

For those of you not up on your real estate law, rent control means that a landlord can only raise a tenant's rent by a certain percentage each year.

Source: "Friends" Rent Control
Justified in that New York rent control prevents the landowner from raising rent above a certain percentage of what the previous tenant (an elderly woman who had been there for decades) was charged.

Source: Film / Rosemary's Baby
Dr. Chaos's tenant in Ghost Sweeper Mikami, due to him never really paying his rent.

Source: Cranky Landlord

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