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lessee
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lessee has 1 sense
- lessee(n = noun.person) leaseholder - a tenant who holds a lease; Array is a kind of holder, renter, tenant
Derived forms verb lease1, verb lease2
CIDE DICTIONARY
The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease. Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
lessee, n. (often foll. by of) a person who holds a property by lease.
Derivative
lesseeship n.
Etymology
ME f. AF past part., OF less{eacute} (as LEASE)
THESAURUS
lessee
board-and-roomer, boarder, hirer, homesteader, incumbent, leaseholder, lodger, occupant, occupier, paying guest, renter, resident, roomer, squatter, sublessee, subtenant, tenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, transient, transient guest, underlesseeROGET THESAURUS
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Possessor
N possessor, holder, occupant, occupier, tenant, person in possession, man in possession, renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee, zemindar, ryot, tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life, owner, proprietor, proprietress, proprietary, impropriator, master, mistress, lord, land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord, lord of the manor, lord paramount, heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord, planter, cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor, grantee, feoffee, releasee, relessee, devisee, legatee, legatary, trustee, holder of the legal estate, mortgagee, right owner, rightful owner, heir presumptive, heir apparent, heiress, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, reversioner, remainderman.Receiving
N receiving, acquisition, reception, suscipiency, acceptance, admission, recipient, accipient, assignee, devisee, legatee, legatary, grantee, feoffee, donee, releasee, relessee, lessee, receiver, sportulary, stipendiary, beneficiary, pensioner, pensionary, almsman, income, receiving, recipient, suscipient, received, given, secondhand, not given, unbestowed &c (give), (bestow).
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