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/rˈɛzɪdənsi/ Listen

noun

Residency n.

Residence. (Obsoles.)

A political agency at a native court in British India, held by an officer styled the Resident; also, a Dutch commercial colony or province in the East Indies.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Residency" Quotes from Famous Books

... some time at Cape Nelson, where the residency was, a lonely though beautiful spot on the north-east coast of British New Guinea. Whilst here I had made good collections of birds and butterflies, and had made expeditions into the surrounding and little known country, including the mountains at the back, where no white man had ...

— Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines • H. Wilfrid Walker

... heroes—some one thousand Englishmen who had marched with him from Allahabad, recaptured by Neill for England, and on to ghastly Cawnpore—arrived at Lucknow, and relieved the slender British force which since May had been holding the Residency against the fierce and ever-renewed assaults of the thousands of rebels who poured themselves upon it. He came in time to save many a brave life that should yet do good service; but the noblest Englishman of them all, the gentle, dauntless, ...

— Great Britain and Her Queen • Anne E. Keeling