sitting tenant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˌsitting ˈtenant noun [countable] British English SCLsomeone who lives in a rented house or flat, especially when this gives them legal rights to stay there 〔房屋或公寓的〕承租人，现住房客
Examples from the Corpus
sitting tenant• A sitting tenant who came with the greenhouses ... and is doing his bit to keep down the slugs.• Like these events in Knowsley North, where the sitting tenant is George Howarth.From Longman Business Dictionarysitting tenantˌsitting ˈtenantLAWPROPERTY a tenant that cannot be forced to move if a building is sold → tenantˌsitting ˈtenant nounChineseSyllable
someone in rented who or flat, lives Business a Corpus house
sitting tenant
ˌsitting ˈtenant
noun [countable] British English
someone who lives in a rented house or flat, especially when this gives them legal rights to stay there
ˌsitting ˈtenant
noun [countable] British Englishsomeone who lives in a rented house or flat, especially when this gives them legal rights to stay there