tenancy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an act of being a tenant or occupant
    occupancy.

WordNet

Ten"an*cy noun
Etymology
Cf. OF. tenace, LL. tenentia. See Tenant.
Wordforms
plural Tenacies
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913