pluraltenants at willLAW,PROPERTYatenantwho isrentingabuilding, etc.legallyand with the owner'spermissionbut without aformalagreement:If you are atenantat will, thelandlordcan end thetenancy, but must give younotice.(Definition oftenant at willfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftenant at will
tenant at willIf atenantatwillis given notice to quit the premises, and refuses to do so, the landlord then begins eviction proceedings.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A farmer, for instance, might have his whole livelihood taken away from him, he being only thetenantatwilland not the owner.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Even atenantatwill, who pays the full value of the land, is not altogether dependent upon the landlord.FromProject GutenbergHe did not belong to the tribe, and lived on the land by the permission of our chief as a sort oftenantatwill.FromProject GutenbergHe is a yearly tenant—atenantatwill.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0On the other hand, so dependent a man will be in a very strict sense atenantatwill.FromProject GutenbergIt not seldom happens that in rentals and surveys he is simply described as atenantatwill, and that the fact that he has a copy is not recorded.FromProject GutenbergThe tenancy terms are, that for two years the settler is atenantatwill, the agreement being terminable by either party at any time without compensation.FromProject GutenbergThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/tenant-at-will##
