RESIDENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does residency mean? 

• RESIDENCY (noun)
  The noun RESIDENCY has 2 senses:

1. the act of dwelling in a place

2. the position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship)

  Familiarity information: RESIDENCY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESIDENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of dwelling in a place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

abidance; residence; residency

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

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

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

lodging (the act of lodging)

occupancy; tenancy (an act of being a tenant or occupant)

Derivation:

reside (live (in a certain place))

reside (make one's home in a particular place or community)

resident (living in a particular place)

resident (used of animals that do not migrate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)

 Context examples 

An individual who changes his place of residency from one country to another.

(Immigrant, NCI Thesaurus)