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Tenancy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Possession or occupancy of lands, buildings, or other property by title, under a lease, or on payment of rent.

n. The period of a tenant's occupancy or possession.

n. A habitation held or occupied by a tenant.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The occupancy of property etc, under a lease, or by paying rent.

n. The period of occupancy by a tenant.

n. The property occupied by a tenant.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.

n. A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In low: A holding by private ownership; estate; tenure: as. tenancy in fee simple; tenancy in tail.

n. A habitation or dwelling-place held of another.

n. The period during which lands or tenements are held or occupied by a tenant.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an act of being a tenant or occupant

Word Usage

"Now, it's clicking off the name tenancy threshold, but we have made huge progress, and again, when you think about being sub 50% a year ago and about 80% a year later and double the NOI, this thing is heading in the right direction."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

residence abidance residency

Cross Reference

estate in joint tenancy tenancy in common cottier tenancy several tenancy tenancy by the courtesy of england

Hyponym

inhabitation habitation inhabitancy

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

tenure holding occupancy

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

abbacy