residency

/ˈrɛzɪdɪnsi/

/ˈrɛzɪdənsi/

Other forms: residencies

Your residency is where you live, officially. A residency is also a temporary professional visit, like when a doctor does a residency at a hospital or a poet does a residency at a school.

When someone emigrates to another country, they don't just visit temporarily — they gain residency in the new country, becoming a legal resident. And if you get a driver's license, you'll get it in the state where you have residency. Another way to use this noun is to mean "a stage of medical training." After attending medical school, new doctors have a residency at a hospital, where they specialize in a particular branch of medicine.

Definitions of residency

1. noun

   the act of dwelling in a place
   synonyms: abidance, residence

   types:

   lodging

   the act of lodging

   occupancy, tenancy

   an act of being a tenant or occupant

   habitation, inhabitancy, inhabitation

   the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)

   type of:

   act, deed, human action, human activity

   something that people do or cause to happen
2. noun

   the position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship)
   type of:

   berth, billet, office, place, position, post, situation, spot

   a job in an organization
3. noun

   a set period during which a musician, artist, or author performs or works at one location