Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tenancy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tenancy \Ten"an*cy\, n.; pl. {Tenacies}. [Cf. OF. tenace, LL.
tenentia. See {Tenant}.] (Law)
(a) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the
temporary possession of what belongs to another.
(b) (O. Eng. Law) A house for habitation, or place to live
in, held of another. --Blount. Blackstone. Wharton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tenancy
n : an act of being a tenant or occupant [syn: {occupancy}]
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