as in landlord
the owner or manager of an inn in Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn a taverner tells a series of tales in verse to a group of travelers

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Noun
  • Terms reached between the tenant union and the landlord are subject to be renegotiated at the end of the renewal period, according to the KC Tenant news release.
    Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
  • Within days, a case manager reached out to the landlord to stop the eviction process.
    Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2025
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  • She has also recently been announced for the role of the evil innkeeper Madame Thénardier in Fred Cavayé’s upcoming adaptation of Les Miserables, alongside Benjamin Lavernhe as Monsieur Thénardier.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 May 2025
  • In many places the State Department has become little more than an innkeeper for other agencies.
    Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
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“Taverner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/taverner. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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