tenantlike

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English

Etymology

From tenant +‎ -like.

Adjective

tenantlike (comparative more tenantlike, superlative most tenantlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tenant.
    • 1883, Robert Stewart Morrison, Emilio Dominguez De Soto, The mining reports:
      ...it was the duty of the defendant, as such tenant, to work and manage the said beds, veins, seams and mines, in a proper and tenantlike manner...