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Tenancy vs Occupation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between tenancy and occupation

is that tenancy is the occupancy of property etc, under a lease, or by paying rent while occupation is an activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.

tenancy

English

Noun

(tenancies)
  • The occupancy of property etc, under a lease, or by paying rent.
  • The period of occupancy by a tenant.
  • The property occupied by a tenant.

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, co-tenancy , fixed-term tenancy , holdover tenancy , joint tenancy with right of survivorship , periodic tenancy , tenancy at will , tenancy at sufferance , tenancy by the entirety , tenancy for life , tenancy for years , tenancy from year to year , tenancy from month to month , tenancy from week to week , tenancy in common}}

    occupation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
  • The act, process or state of possessing a place.
  • The control of a country or region by a hostile army.
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    • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}

    Synonyms

    * (activity with which one occupies oneself) profession, vocation, interest, employment