Meaning & use
current tenant
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Meaning
nouncountable
The person or business that is renting and living in or using a property at present, under a lease or agreement.
Grammar: Countable: the current tenant, current tenants.
Patterns
- the current tenant of something
- ask the current tenant
The current tenant has agreed to move out by the end of March.
Please ask the current tenant for access before you inspect the flat.
The landlord says the current tenant always pays on time.
Word forms
| plural | current tenants |
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Common combinations
- speak to the current tenant
- Speak to the current tenant before viewing.
- notify the current tenant
- The owner must notify the current tenant of the sale.
- current tenant's lease
- The current tenant's lease ends in June.
- contact the current tenant
- Contact the current tenant to arrange a visit.
- rights of the current tenant
- The rights of the current tenant are protected by law.
Synonyms and how they differ
- present occupant
- It is more formal and does not say whether the person rents or owns.
- existing tenant
- It stresses that the person was already there before a change, such as a new owner.
- resident
- It means anyone who lives somewhere and need not be a renter.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: current tenant or current?
current tenant vs current
Current means happening now. It is not the same as currant, a small dried fruit.
Practice
A buyer who wants to see inside a rented flat should first contact the ____.
Choose one answer.
The current tenant lives there now and controls access. A prospective tenant has not yet moved in, so that person could not allow entry.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “current tenant”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.