tenancy
Syllables: ten·an·cy/ˈtɛnənsi/US/ˈtɪ̟nənsi/
tenancy noun: 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.
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.
- Most gay people know oppresion as fear of losing a job, losing a tenancy or family ties.1983 December 31, Gary Phillips, “Gays in Gaol [Jail]: Who Cares”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 14
- Synonyms:
- lease
tenancy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
tenancy in Hindi
- किरायेदारी, किराएदारी
tenancy in Tamil
- நிலக்குத்தகை வகை, நிலவார உரிமை, பயிரிடும் உரிமை, பாத்தியதை, குடுவாரம்
tenancy in Urdu
- کرایہ داری
tenancy in Malayalam
- occupation, occupancy, period of occupancy
- കുടിയായ്മ, കുടിയിരുപ്പ്, കുടികിടപ്പ്, കുടി, കാണി, കെെവശാവകാശം
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- tenancy in Kannada
- ಗೇಣಿದಾರಿಕೆ, ಒಕ್ಕಲುತನ
- tenancy in Punjabi
- ਕਿਰਾਏਦਾਰੀ
Synonyms of tenancy
Forms of tenancy
| plural | tenancies |
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Origin of tenancy
From tenant + -cy.
Words formed from tenancy
- 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
Questions about tenancy
- What does tenancy mean?
- Tenancy means 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.
- What is tenancy in Hindi?
- Tenancy in Hindi is किरायेदारी, किराएदारी. See Tenancy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tenancy?
- Tenancy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tenancy?
- Tenancy is pronounced /ˈtɛnənsi/.
- What is the plural of tenancy?
- The plural of tenancy is tenancies.
Words near tenancy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tenancy (page history and authors); tenancy (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tenancy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tenancy (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tenancy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); tenancy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tenancy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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