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leaseholder

[ lees-hohl-der ]

/ ˈlisˌhoʊl dər /

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noun

a tenant under a lease.

Origin of leaseholder

First recorded in 1855–60; lease¹ + holder

Words nearby leaseholder

lease, lease rod, lease-purchase, leaseback, leasehold, leaseholder, leaseman, leash, leash law, leasing, least

Example sentences from the Web for leaseholder

Most former electors and every leaseholder and every copyholder were now excluded.

Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. |S. A. Reilly
Normally he is a leaseholder, sometimes for life, more usually for a period of years ranging from twenty-one to eighty.

The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century |Richard Henry Tawney
The free tenant was neither a yearly tenant, nor a leaseholder.

The Coming of the Friars |Augustus Jessopp
The interest of the customary tenant, therefore, virtually depreciated to the level of that of a leaseholder.

The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century |Richard Henry Tawney

This did not suit a certain Major Thornhill, a relative and leaseholder, and thereupon a pretty plot was hatched.

In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays |Augustine Birrell

British Dictionary definitions for leaseholder

leaseholder

/ (ˈliːsˌhəʊldə) /

noun

a person in possession of leasehold property

a tenant under a lease