residency
(ˈrɛzɪdənsɪ)
[f. as residence n.1: see -ency.]
1. a. = residence n.1 in various senses. Also attrib. Now chiefly N.Amer.
| 1579 Fenton Guicciard. i. 1 It was..greatly honored..with the seate and residencie of the throne of Religion. Ibid. 13 Constantinople, the soueraigne residencie of that Empire. 1604 Const. & Canons Eccl. xliv, All those..shal after the dayes of their Residencie..presently repaire to their Benefices. 1654 Cokaine Dianea ii. 114 Constancy may have residency in all things but the minds of lovers. 1670 Maynwaring Vita Sana xvi. 148 Fear..chaseth the spirits to and fro from their residency and faculties. 1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 35 Shanty-..Irish, i.e., those who remain in the lower-class communities near the center of the city (or, irrespective of residency, preserve the social traits of the shanty Irish). 1970 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 2 Apr. 30/1 The controversial [abortion] measure contains no residency requirement and would allow a pregnancy to be terminated at any time. 1981 Times 16 Feb. 15/7 Degrees for people who want to be more effective and secure in their Jobs or Professions... No residency required. (Advt. by an Amer. university.) |
† b. Eccl. = residence n.1 2 a.
Obs.| 1590 Humble Motion with Submiss. 27 There wanteth residensy in many able men; there is no practise of preching in many resident. c 1613 Soc. Condit. People Anglesey 55 Of these that keep true residency, some keep indifferent houses, others deserve no great commendation. 1651 N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. xxviii. (1739) 139 Residency, and Non-residency, was a Theme formerly learned from the Canon Law, in which, as also in the thing it self, the Clergy were the only skilful men. |
c. Of a musician or a band: the state of being permanently or regularly engaged at a club, etc.
| 1966 Melody Maker 7 May 5/3 Colin Smith..has left to take up a residency at London's Georgian Room. 1968 Ibid. 30 Nov. 6/1 The Nice..used to have a residency there. 1971 Ibid. 4 Sept. 21 She moved back to Chicago and played long residencies there..as a pianist vocalist. 1975 Evening Herald (Dublin) 8 May 12/4 (Advt.), Popular vocalist..seeks position with musicians..; preference for residency in lounge. |
2. a. The official residence of a representative of the Governor-general (formerly the East India Company) at an Indian native court. Also
transf. (in sense of
resident n. 2 d) and
attrib. Now only
Hist.| 1800 Asiatic Ann. Reg. ii. 19/1 The revenues and charges of Fort Marlbro', the chief Residency of Bencoolen. 1845 Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 306 ‘The Residency’..containing the establishment of the Company's Resident at the court of his Highness the Nizam. 1877 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 601/2 We steam slowly along, past the English Residency with its beautiful gardens. 1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari v. 90, I spent the evening and night with the Resident and his wife..in the ample Residency. 1980 J. Hone Flowers of Forest i. 8 The annual reception for the Queen's Birthday at the old British Residency on the Nile. |
| attrib. 1844 H. H. Wilson Brit. India II. 238 The Mahrattas entered the Residency grounds. 1971 R. Russell tr. Ahmad's Shore & Wave xv. 159, I once met Lord Mountbatten myself in Kashmir at a Residency lunch. |
b. = residence n.1 5 e.
| 1970 K. Benton Sole Agent xviii. 199 [He is]..supplied by the Soviet Illegal Residency here, in Lisbon, to help Rogov to get rid of the body. 1977 ‘J. Le Carré’ Hon. Schoolboy iii. 53 What did he do up there..his networks blown to smithereens? His foreign residencies, his reptile fund frozen solid by the Treasury—they meant his operational accounts..and not a friend in Whitehall or Washington to call his own? 1981 J. Simpson Moscow Requiem ii. vi. 177 The KGB resident in Riyadh..made his last radio contact with the KGB Residency in Aden. |
3. An administrative division in the Dutch East Indies. Also
attrib.| 1814 Raffles Java (1817) I. 289 In the different residencies were provincial courts, styled landraads. 1861 J. W. B. Money Java I. 197 As president of the landraad, and as judge of the residency court. 1863 Chambers's Encycl. V. 691/2 The island is divided into East, West, and Middle Java, containing 22 subdivisions, called Residencies. |
4. N. Amer. The position or station of a resident (
resident n.1 3); the period during which one holds this position.
| 1924 Mod. Hospital XXIII. 422/1 Residencies should also be offered in general hospitals. 1933 Southern Med. Jrnl. XXVI. 773/2, I am not in sympathy with the prolonged residency extending over more than two years. 1949 G. D. Wolf Physician's Business (ed. 3) i. 10 A promising young doctor, following a year's internship, could receive an assistant residency for two years. Ibid., The ideal residency is one in which all phases of the specialty are stressed. 1958 F. G. Slaughter Daybreak i. i. 9 They were also competing for a residency on the Neurosurgical Service—a vitally important stepping-stone for an ambitious doctor on the last lap of his training. 1975 R. H. Rimmer Premar Experiments i. 66 I've got a friend who's an MD... He's doing his residency at Boston City Hospital. 1977 Washington Post 24 May 1/2 Georgetown University Medical School and Providence Hospital have announced their joint development of a residency program in..general, or family, practice. 1979 Sci. Amer. Oct. 16/3 After an internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania he was Special Projects Associate in epidemiology at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn. |