residency
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.
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the act of dwelling in a placetypes:lodgingthe act of lodginghabitation, inhabitancy, inhabitationthe act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)type of:
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the position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship)
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a set period during which a musician, artist, or author performs or works at one location
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Vocabulary lists containing residency
In this memoir, Sara Saedi describes her shocking discovery as a young teen that she was an undocumented immigrant and her journey to getting a green card.
An inventive seamstress befriends a prince with an eye for unconventional fashion.
This biography details the life of Janusz Korczak, a Polish doctor who refused to abandon the orphaned children in his care during the Holocaust.