sitting tenant

English

Noun

sitting tenant (plural sitting tenants)

(UK) A tenant who is already in occupation of a premises, especially when there is a change of owner. The tenant is not evicted when the property is sold to a new owner.

Further reading

“sitting tenant”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
“sitting tenant” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
“sitting tenant” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
“sitting tenant”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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