guest vs sitting tenant

guest

noun
  • A patron or customer in a hotel etc. 

  • An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast. 

  • A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own. 

  • Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite. 

  • An inquiline. 

  • A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another. 

verb
  • to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast 

  • as a musician, to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band) 

sitting tenant

noun
  • A tenant who is already in occupation of a premises, especially when there is a change of owner. The tenant is not evicted when the property is sold to a new owner. 

How often have the words guest and sitting tenant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )