An act of being a tenant or occupant.

synonym: tenancy.

Roget 777: possession, seizin [Law], seisin [Law]; ownership etc. 780; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality^†, dependency; villenage, villeinage^†; socage^†, chivalry, knight service.    exclusive possession, impropriation^†, monopoly, retention etc. 781; prepossession, preoccupancy^†; nine points of the law; corner, usucaption^†.    future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee, seigniority^†; primogeniture, ultimogeniture^†.    futures contract [right of future possession; financial instruments], warrant, put, call, option; right of first refusal.    bird in hand, uti possidetis [Lat.], chose in possession.    ... show more

Dutch: pacht

The act of occupying or taking possession of a building:
— Occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal.

synonyms: moving in, occupation.

Roget 186: presence; occupancy, occupation; attendance; whereness^†.    permeation, pervasion; diffusion etc. (dispersion) 73.    ubiety^†, ubiquity, ubiquitariness^†; omnipresence.    bystander etc. (spectator) 444.    ... show more

Dutch: bezetting, ingebruikneming
Polish: okupacja