RESIDENCY Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

residency

noun

ˈre-zə-dən(t)-sē

Definition of residency

as in occupancy

the act or fact of residing in a place as much as I've enjoyed my residency in this state, it may be time to move on

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Recent Examples of residency The run follows the band's residency at Sphere Las Vegas in December 2025. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026 Tiara Moultrie fellow at The Century Foundation State student loan programs usually have residency rules, too, Buchanan said. — Annie Nova, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2026 But Sánchez has been a strong supporter of regulated migration, and recently approved residency and work permits for hundreds of thousands of eligible undocumented migrants living in Spain. — Miguel MacIas, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026 The California Billionaire Tax Act’s residency provisions are exceptionally vulnerable to legal challenge. — Jared Walczak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for residency

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Noun

Two hotels with identical occupancy may have very different ancillary-revenue opportunities based on who is staying there.

— Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
Hilton Head Health stays start at just over $3,900 for a seven-night experience with a single-occupancy Comfort King room at the resort's on-site Sweetgrass Inn.

— Eve Chen, USA Today, 27 July 2026

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Noun

And the divide is especially stark for workers without bachelor’s degrees; nearly two-thirds of city occupations do not require a four-year degree, but their median wage is almost $60,000 lower than for occupations that do.

— Emma Pfohman, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2026
The Glenwood native and Bloom High School graduate tried a few occupations after high school but wasn’t all that comfortable with them.

— Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of occupation

Noun

He is credited as the first and most significant contributor to South Florida archaeology of the time, classifying materials, recording 49 sites across Miami-Dade and making the first outline of a chronology of indigenous habitation.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
Combined with Cape Ann’s northeasterly location along the East Coast jutting out into the Atlantic, the lighthouse would have been one of the first signs of human habitation people making the trip from Western Europe to America would have seen.

— Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Definition of habitation

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