TENANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenancy mean? 

• TENANCY (noun)
  The noun TENANCY has 1 sense:

1. an act of being a tenant or occupant

  Familiarity information: TENANCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENANCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An act of being a tenant or occupant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

occupancy; tenancy

Hypernyms ("tenancy" is a kind of...):

abidance; residence; residency (the act of dwelling in a place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tenancy"):

habitation; inhabitancy; inhabitation (the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men))

Derivation:

tenant (someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else)

tenant (any occupant who dwells in a place)

tenant (a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease))