occupancy

The act of occupying or the condition of being occupied.

The state of being an occupant or tenant.

The period during which one owns, rents, or uses certain premises or land.

The use to which something occupied is put.

The act of taking possession of previously unowned property with the intent of obtaining the right to own it.

The act of taking possession, or the being in actual possession; more specifically, in law, the taking possession of a thing not belonging to any person, and the right acquired by such act; that mode of acquiring property which is founded on the principle that he who takes possession of an ownerless thing, with the design of appropriating it to himself, thereby becomes the owner of it; the act of occupying or holding in actual as distinguished from constructive possession.

The term during which one is an occupant: as, during his occupancy of the post.

The act of taking or holding possession, especially of real property or rental property; possession; occupation.