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| ten·e·ment [ ténnəmənt ] (plural ten·e·ments) |
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1. urban apartment building: a large residential building in a city, usually of three or more stories and with only basic amenities, where a large number of people live in self-contained rented apartments
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2. item of rented property: a piece of property, e.g. land or houses, held by one person but owned by another
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| [14th century. Via Old French, "tenure" < medieval Latin tenementum< Latin tenere "to hold"] |
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