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tenant at sufferance noun[ C ] ukuspluraltenants at sufferance LAW, PROPERTY a tenant who stays in a building, etc. after the lease has ended, and without the owner's permission: A tenant at sufferance is liable to pay rent, but can be evicted at any time.
Examples of tenant at sufferance tenant at sufferance The owner is not permitted to use excessive force in ejecting a tenantatsufferance. From Project Gutenberg If a person has a lawful estate in land, and retains possession without right after his interest ceases, he is said to be a tenantatsufferance. From Project Gutenberg A tenantatsufferance is a wrongdoer. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |