From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tenancy \Ten"an*cy\, noun; 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) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: an act of being a tenant or occupant [syn: {occupancy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "tenancy": abiding, abode, adverse possession, alodium, burgage, claim, cohabitation, colony, commorancy, de facto, de jure, dependency, derivative title, dwelling, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiefdom, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, gavelkind, habitancy, habitation, having title to, hold, holding, inhabitancy, inhabitation, inhabiting, knight service, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, living, lodging, mandate, nesting, occupancy, occupation, original title, owning, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, residence, residency, residing, seisin, socage, sojourning, squatting, staying, staying over, stopping, sublease, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, title, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage
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