Usually means: Multi-family rental housing buildings.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word tenements:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. tenements: Merriam-Webster
  2. tenements: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tenements: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tenements, tenements: Wordnik
  5. tenements: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tenements: Wiktionary
  7. tenements: Dictionary.com
  8. tenements: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Tenements (of the Anointed Flesh), Tenements: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Tenements: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. tenements: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Tenements: Legal dictionary
  4. tenements: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. Tenements: Encyclopedia

(Note: See tenement as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tenement)

noun:  A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
noun:  (law) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
noun:  (figurative) A dwelling; abode; habitation.
▸ Also see tenement


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