tenanting

verb

present participle of tenant
as in leasing

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  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
  • An industrial tenant with specialized equipment has vastly different operational needs than a family renting an apartment.
    — David Crown, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • And at $200 a month, renting the lot on the river was affordable on his wages as a Waffle House cook.
    — Ren Larson, ProPublica, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of renting
Verb
  • The Pauli exclusion principle prevents identical fermions from occupying the same quantum state.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
  • In 1970, she and fellow protesters were arrested and jailed after occupying the offices of the counterculture Grove Press, whose owner, Barney Rosset, was fighting employees’ efforts to unionize.
    — Hillel Italie, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of occupying
Verb
  • Somehow, Stan does, inhabiting the physicality and voice completely, turning up the volume on the Trumpian tics as the character ages.
    — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The VisionQuest trailer suggests that his brother Tommy’s soul is inhabiting the body of Thomas Shepherd, played by Ruaridh Mollica.
    — Devan Coggan, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of inhabiting
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“Tenanting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenanting. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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