fellow tenant
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffellowandtenant
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fellow
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈfel.əʊ/us/ˈfel.oʊ/
used to refer to someone who has the same job or interests as you, or is in the same situation ...
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tenant
noun[C]
uk/ˈten.ənt/us/ˈten.ənt/
a person who pays rent for the use of land or ...
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(Definition offellowandtenantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffellow tenant
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Indeed, occasions were observed when tenants behaved or spoke of themselves as of superior status to fellow tenants.
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The tendency not to visit fellow tenants, except as part of an instrumental relationship, was a social norm in these schemes, one reinforced by gossip.
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It follows that avoidance of gossip could be problematic when people wanted to mix with fellow tenants, or felt they needed to.
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In sheltered housing, people interact as neighbours, fellow tenants, social club committee members, attendees at scheme functions, group or clique members, co-users of communal facilities, and as older people.
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This may have reduced reasons for others to gossip about visits to fellow tenants, whilst providing a safer environment in which to talk informally, even to gossip about others.
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An unreasonable tenant could exact payments from fellow tenants to buy his or her agreement for a commonhold scheme.
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But he has to get the agreement of his fellow tenants.
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Vast numbers are in fact helping to subsidise their fellow tenants.
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As my fellow tenants will know, in the dead of winter the place is boiling hot, and there is no control over the temperature.
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It may well be that attachment of earnings orders is the way to deal with these tenants who are behaving so anti-socially towards their fellow tenants.
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There are cases—no doubt a very small minority, but very trying to landlords—of really bad tenants who can cause the greatest trouble either to landlords or to fellow tenants.
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We agree that local authorities should have the discretion to take into account previous violence, antisocial behaviour and other factors that pose a threat to fellow tenants.
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Gossipy neighbors and shop vendors treat them with contempt, fellow tenants complaining that their (already noticeably dilapidated) tenement building has now become filthy.
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