Tenancy vs Tenant - What's the difference?
tenancy | tenant |
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.
One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
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One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
* Cowper
* Cowley
* Byron
(legal) One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
Tenant is a derived term of tenancy.
As nouns the difference between tenancy and tenant
is that tenancy is the occupancy of property etc, under a lease, or by paying rent while tenant is one who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.As a verb tenant is
to hold as, or be, a tenant.tenancy
English
Noun
(tenancies)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}}tenant
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Alternative forms
* tenaunt (obsolete) * tennant (obsolete) * tennaunt (obsolete)Noun
(Leasehold estate) (en noun)- sweet tenants of this grove
- the happy tenant of your shade
- the sister tenants of the middle deep