tenancy

English

Etymology

From tenant + -cy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛnənsi/, [ˈtʰɛnənsɪi̯]

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    • (US, pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɪ̟nənsi/, [ˈtʰɪ̟nənsɪi̯]
• Hyphenation: ten‧an‧cy

Noun

tenancy (countable and uncountable, plural tenancies)

1. 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.

Bulgarian: наемане (bg) n (naemane) Czech: nájem (cs), pronájem (cs) m, držba (cs) f, držení (cs) n Finnish: arenti (fi) Galician: arrendo (gl) m, arrendamento (gl) m German: Mietverhältnis n Greek: μίσθωση (el) f (místhosi), πάκτωση (el) f (páktosi) Irish: tionóntacht f Polish: dzierżawa (pl) f, najem (pl) m Spanish: arrendamiento (es) m