tenancy

[ UK /tˈɛnənsi/ ]
[ US /ˈtɛnənsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. an act of being a tenant or occupant
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How To Use tenancy In A Sentence

  • Canadian English borrows words from other languages mainly through the ways of direct loan, half loan, sub tenancy and loan translation.
  • He says tenancy databases are an important and legitimate tool which help real estate agents carry out their job responsibly.
  • This helped foster the development of an elite that could control access to large tracts of land, including forestlands, setting the stage for peasant tenancy later in the period.
  • Property held in joint tenancy automatically passes to the surviving spouse after the death of the other.
  • So great was the general's despatch, that Paul I, at his request, granted the young man a sub-lieutenancy in the Semonowskoi regiment, so that Foedor entered on his duties the very next day after his arrival in St. Petersburg. Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
  • He held a sole tenancy of a flat.
  • He sold the land to the claimants and they granted him in return a rent-free life tenancy.
  • It is not surprising then that landlord domination of the land rental market has resulted in stringent tenancy contracts.
  • A person cohabiting with another may succeed to some sort of tenancy on the partner's death.
  • I left off, though, when I became aware that I was being watched by a belted constable with a damned disinheriting moustache, but I've calculated since that I could have cleared ten thousand dollars a year on the streets of Baltimore, easy, which is two thousand quid, sufficient to buy you a lieutenancy in the Guards in those days - and from the look of some of them, I'd not be surprised. THE NUMBERS
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