regulated tenancy

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social welfare (in Britain) the letting of a dwelling by a nonresident private landlord, usually at a registered fair rent, from which the landlord cannot evict the tenant without a possession order from a courtCompare assured tenancy

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How to use regulated tenancy in a sentence

Like the financial sector, the housing industry is massively regulated in all sorts of ways.
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The premise of the sketch was that sex was too spontaneous to be regulated, and the quiz show played that idea to the hilt.
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Future lives, careers and attitudes were being determined in this lightly regulated fever.
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Japanese whisky is not regulated in Japan or in the U.S., so producers have the freedom to experiment with flavors and techniques.
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It then helped design and implement the bailout of insurer AIG, which, like Bear Stearns, was not regulated by the Fed.
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The bag, being blown up, forms a wind reservoir and the amount of tone can be regulated by the pressure of the arm.
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The speed of automobiles along the public highways may be regulated by law.
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The business of a pawnbroker is legally regulated by statute, and the states usually require him to get a license.
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On the other hand the letting of an entire floor for lodgings may create a tenancy, and so may even a single room.
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Sea and sky must be observed before we can know the laws by which their great changes or chances are regulated.
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