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tenanting

verb

present participle of tenant
as in leasing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tenanting
  1. leasing
  2. renting
  3. occupying
  4. inhabiting
Verb
  • In exchange for leasing out part of their unlimited bandwidth to others, many get free movie and TV show streaming.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The technology products and services arm brings in more revenue — around $251 million last year — by selling, leasing or renting Imax technology to theaters.
    — Kamaron McNair Juhohn Lee, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of leasing
Verb
  • Canyon County also spent $145 renting 100 chairs, per the receipts.
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Charges say the video shows Buckney renting a shooting lane at the gun shop under his name and correlating with a customer account number.
    — WCCO Staff, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of renting
Verb
  • European energy companies have also proved resilient despite a tumultuous twelve months, with Shell, Glencore, BP and TotalEnergies occupying the rest of the top five spots.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The accounting giant recently debuted its new 102,000-square-foot office at Ten Twenty Spring in Midtown, occupying three floors in one of the city’s newest workplace towers.
    — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of occupying
Verb
  • In new production photos, Nyong’o can be seen inhabiting the role of A, an unnamed woman navigating the aftermath of an abusive relationship and the complicated, often deeply personal process of moving forward.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Mehring’s characters include petty criminals, unscrupulous lawyers, Galician Jews, Freikorps heavies, local and international businessmen, Prussian generals, and the everyday citizens inhabiting the streets of Berlin’s old and rather dingy center.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of inhabiting
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“Tenanting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenanting. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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