tenancy
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɛnənsi/, [ˈtʰɛnənsɪi̯]
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US, pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /ˈtɪ̟nənsi/, [ˈtʰɪ̟nənsɪi̯]
- Hyphenation: ten‧an‧cy
Noun
tenancy (countable and uncountable, plural tenancies)
- Synonym of lease (an interest in land, its related contract or the document containing that contract); more commonly used when a lease is short-term or has a periodic rent that is not merely nominal.
- 1983 December 31, Gary Phillips, “Gays in Gaol [Jail]: Who Cares”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 14:
- Most gay people know oppresion as fear of losing a job, losing a tenancy or family ties.
Hyponyms
- sublease, underlease, subtenancy, undertenancy, subletting, underletting, (informal) sublet, underlet
Derived terms
- 1986 Act tenancy
- Agricultural Holdings Act tenancy
- co-tenancy
- cotenancy
- farm business tenancy
- fixed-term tenancy
- full agricultural tenancy
- holdover tenancy
- joint tenancy
- joint tenancy with right of survivorship
- multitenancy
- nontenancy
- periodic tenancy
- subtenancy
- tenancy at sufferance
- tenancy at will
- tenancy by the entirety
- tenancy for life
- tenancy for years
- tenancy from month to month
- tenancy from week to week
- tenancy from year to year
- tenancy in common
- undertenancy
Translations
occupancy of property, etc.
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