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What is the noun for tenancy?

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tenant
  1. One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
  2. One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
  3. (law) One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
  4. Misconstruction of tenet
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Evidently, the tenant had neither heard of a vacuum cleaner nor a window cleaner.”
tenancy
  1. The occupancy of property, etc., under a lease, or by paying rent.
  2. The period of occupancy by a tenant.
  3. The property occupied by a tenant.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “During their tenancy of the house, this same figure was seen repeatedly by at least five independent witnesses.”
      “The learned trial judge erred in admitting in evidence the notice to quit given by the plaintiff to the defendant during his tenancy as administrator of William Black.”
      “The wife had left the defendant and had given the housing authority notice to quit in accordance with the tenancy agreement.”
tenantry
  1. The state or act of being a tenant.
  2. The body of tenants on an estate.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The first of these stallions was kept for the benefit of the tenantry, who were granted its use free of charge.”
      “The duke's wealth was squeezed from rents and extracted from a starving tenantry.”
      “This transferred more holdings to the tenantry than any previous Land Act had done.”
tenantableness
  1. The quality of being tenantable.
tenaunt
  1. Obsolete form of tenant.
tenantship
tenantries
tenaunts
  1. plural of tenaunt
tenancies
  1. plural of tenancy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “All tenancies of units shall be in writing and a copy must be filed with the management office. No roomers or boarders are permitted.”
      “Some of the leaseholds were virtually worthless tenancies of shop-like premises.”
      “In the case of periodic tenancies the legislature left landlords free to bring them to an end by the service and expiry of valid notices to quit.”
tenants
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