What is "tenancies"

Usage examples of "tenancies".

Quick tenancies for fly-by-night businesses had left blocked-up windows and boarded doors.

And when those tenancies began to pay rents, when there were sawmills and gristmills on the streams, when there were settlements and stores and taverns, when the handful of cows and pigs and horses had multiplied into fat herds of thriving stock under Jamie's careful stewardship .