Usually means: Multi-family rental housing building.
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  1. tenement: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tenement: Merriam-Webster
  3. tenement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tenement: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tenement: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tenement: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tenement, tenement: Wordnik
  8. tenement: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tenement: Wiktionary
  10. tenement: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tenement: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tenement: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tenement: Dictionary.com
  14. tenement: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tenement: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tenement (band), Tenement (disambiguation), Tenement (film), Tenement (law), Tenement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tenement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tenement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tenement: Rhymezone
  20. Tenement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tenement: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tenement: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tenement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tenement: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tenement: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. tenement: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. tenement: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Tenement: Investopedia
  11. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  12. tenement: Legal dictionary
  13. tenement: Financial dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. tenement: Encyclopedia

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  1. TENEMENT, TENEMENT, TENEMENT: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

(Note: See tenements as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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.

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