Tenant vs. Occupier — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tenant and Occupier
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Tenant
One that pays rent to use or occupy land, a building, or other property owned by another.
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Occupier
To fill up (time or space)
A lecture that occupied three hours.
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Tenant
A dweller in a place; an occupant.
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Occupier
To dwell or reside in (an apartment, for example).
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Tenant
To hold as a tenant or be a tenant.
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Occupier
To hold or fill (an office or position).
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Tenant
One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
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Occupier
To seize possession of and maintain control over forcibly or by conquest
The troops occupied the city.
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Tenant
(by extension) One who has possession of any place.
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Occupier
To engage or employ the attention or concentration of
Occupied the children with coloring books.
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Tenant
(computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
Multi-tenant hosting
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Occupier
One who occupies, particularly with respect to a foreign government controlling the territory of another.
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Tenant
One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
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Occupier
One who occupies, or has possession.
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Tenant
One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
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Occupier
One who follows an employment; hence, a tradesman.
The occupiers of thy merchandise.
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Tenant
Misconstruction of tenet
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Occupier
Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
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Tenant
To hold as, or be, a tenant.
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Occupier
A member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country
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Tenant
(transitive) To inhabit.
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Tenant
One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; - correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
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Tenant
One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
The hhappy tenant of your shade.
The sister tenants of the middle deep.
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Tenant
To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
Sir Roger's estate is tenanted by persons who have served him or his ancestors.
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Tenant
Someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else;
The landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent
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Tenant
A holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
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Tenant
Any occupant who dwells in a place
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Tenant
Occupy as a tenant
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