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LIFE TENANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tenant whose legal right to retain possession of buildings or lands lasts as long as they (or some other person) live
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Hypernyms ("life tenant" is a kind of...):
tenant (a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease))