tenancy

IPA: tˈɛnʌnsi

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.

Examples of "tenancy" in Sentences

Four unities of a joint tenancy.
Destruction of tenancy in common.
Fixed term tenancy or tenancy for years.
All of this disappears with multi tenancy.
It symbolizes the new tenancy of the palace.
Petition to partition to sever a joint tenancy.
It refers to joint tenancy as simply joint tenancy.
For a residential tenancy, this new tenancy is month to month.
For a residential tenancy, such new tenancy lasts month to month.
Security of tenure operates in a slightly different way depending on whether the tenancy is a periodic or fixed term tenancy.