tenantry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the tenants of an estate, district, or landlord considered collectively

   The landowner negotiated new leases with the tenantry before raising rents.

2. 2
   noun

   the state or period of occupying property as a tenant

   During her tenantry, she repaired the cottage and replanted the garden.

Formed from tenant + the collective and status suffix -ry, on the pattern of words such as peasantry and yeomanry.

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