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# tenancy

«tenancy» in Mova's school dictionary: **The right to live in or use a house, flat, land or shop…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a tenancy, tenancies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The right to live in or use a house, flat, land or shop that you rent from the owner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenancy/#m1)

2) The time during which you rent a place: a six-month tenancy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenancy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a family rents a home under a tenancy agreement with a landlord. In maths problems a tenancy is rent per month × number of months. In formal language, «the tenancy ends» means the renting time ends.

### examples

- They signed a one-year tenancy for the flat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenancy/#x1)
- The tenancy agreement says no pets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenancy/#x2)
- Rent is £600 a month, so a twelve-month tenancy costs £7,200. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenancy/#x3)
- Their tenancy ends at the end of the month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenancy/#x4)
- The farmer has a tenancy on the land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenancy/#x5)
- Read the tenancy carefully before you sign. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenancy/#x6)

### note

The person who rents: tenant; the owner: landlord or landlady. Plural: tenancies (y → ies). Lease and tenancy are close; a lease is often for longer.

### In the corpora

- [Families move house for many reasons: a new job, more room, a cheaper rent, or because a tenancy ends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/0/)
- [Renters sign a tenancy and pay a deposit that comes back if the home is left in good condition.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tenancy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenancy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.