tenement

  • 31tenement house — ☆ tenement house n. a building divided into tenements, or apartments, now specif. one in the slums that is run down, overcrowded, etc …

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  • 32Tenement House Act — Das Tenement House Museum in New Yorks Lower East Side Die Tenement House Acts waren Gesetze des Staates New York, durch die die Wohnbedingungen für die Bewohner von Mietshäusern (Tenements) verbessert werden sollten. Die Tenement House Acts… …

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  • 33tenement house — noun a run down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑tenement • Hypernyms: ↑apartment building, ↑apartment house * * * noun : a dwelling house divided into separate apartments for rent to families …

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  • 34Tenement (law) — A tenement (from the Latin to hold ), in law, is anything that is held, rather than owned. This usage is a holdover from feudalism, which still forms the basis of all real estate law in the English speaking world.Under feudalism, land itself is… …

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  • 35Tenement Symphony — Infobox Album | Name = Tenement Symphony Type = Album Artist = Marc Almond Released = 1991 Recorded = Genre = Length = Label = WEA / Some Bizzare Producer = Reviews = This album = Next album = Tenement Symphony is an album by Marc Almond,… …

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  • 36tenement house — A multiple dwelling, ordinarily housing people of very limited means or persons on welfare, usually several stories high, and containing many separate apartments or tenements, usually involving the use of bath and toilet facilities in common by… …

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  • 37tenement district — noun a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses • Hypernyms: ↑residential district, ↑residential area, ↑community …

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  • 38tenement — noun a) a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low rent, run down one b) any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned …

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  • 39Tenement — The holding of land of a lord by freehold or other kinds of tenure; later, any building used as a living accommodation. [< Lat. teneo = to hold] …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 40tenement — Synonyms and related words: Augean stables, acres, apartment, apartment house, chambers, chattels real, cold water flat, condominium, cooperative apartment house, demesne, domain, dump, duplex, duplex apartment, duplex house, flat, flats, garden… …

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