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tenure
[ ten-yer ]
noun
- the holding or possessing of anything:
the tenure of an office.
- the holding of property, especially real property, of a superior in return for services to be rendered.
- the period or term of holding something.
- status granted to an employee, usually after a probationary period, indicating that the position or employment is permanent.
verb (used with object)
- to give tenure to:
After she served three years on probation, the committee tenured her.
tenure
/ ˈtɛnjə; ˈtɛnjʊə /
noun
- the possession or holding of an office or position
- the length of time an office, position, etc, lasts; term
- the improved security status of a person after having been in the employ of the same company or institution for a specified period
- the right to permanent employment until retirement, esp for teachers, lecturers, etc
- property law
- the holding or occupying of property, esp realty, in return for services rendered, etc
- the duration of such holding or occupation
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Derived Forms
- tenˈurial, adjective
- tenˈurially, adverb
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Other Words From
- ten·u·ri·al [ten-, yoor, -ee-, uh, l], adjective
- ten·uri·al·ly adverb
- nonten·uri·al adjective
- nonten·uri·al·ly adverb
- under·tenure noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tenure1
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Example Sentences
Citi shares gained about 40% during his tenure, compared with 138% for JPMorgan and 171% for Bank of America.
There were times … Look, I’ve looked back on my tenure, Carlos.
Melissa Maddox-Evans, who in October became the executive director for the housing authority, declined to comment specifically on issues before her tenure, but she said the court cases are a necessary step.
During her tenure leading the label, Dlugacz produced 40 albums and sold more than a million records.
When he took over eight years ago, it was far from clear that the paper would emerge from his tenure as a modern digital operation that was still family-controlled.
Combining our experiences, we’ve built a team that similarly reflects the marriage of deep health care services and operations tenure with some of the brightest technology, logistics, and member experience minds.
Over his tenure, Wicall took Coyote on hundreds of trips to the children’s hospital in San Antonio.
I’m talking about tying tenure decisions, grant money, and the like to people who have given us credible research that replicates.
In this clip, a teenage Minaj gets heated and throws a phone in a play rehearsal during her tenure at LaGuardia High School.
Simpson also encountered similar situations during his tenure at the Center.
Around the world, they are held in high esteem, paid professional wages, and often granted tenure in their jobs.
“That was the longest, most severe S/M session I have experienced in my thirty-four-year tenure,” she writes in the book.
His stories about his tenure in Washington hype his success in fixing housing problems in “inner cities.”
But that tenure ended when he was sent to prison for five years on a racketeering charge.
Thompson may be no worse than Hynes, but his first year has been frustrating for advocates who once had high hopes for his tenure.
Defying instructions would have been unthinkable during the tenure of his father or grandfather.
It was a bit like academia, where young scholars rarely stick their necks out until they have tenure.
However, she also closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and opposed the idea of tenure.
It occurred when he became a full professor with tenure at Syracuse University.
Released in 2010, she saw the state take custody of her son and her mother die during her tenure in prison.
Suppose my husband gets hired in a tenure-track position at a university.
So is Abramson, and that could be one reason why the Times won eight Pulitzer Prizes during her brief and successful tenure.
It was a rocky tenure from her appointment all the way up to the botched Healthcare.gov rollout.
“No one wants to risk their tenure or promotion by speaking out of turn,” confides a senior professor.
And, as mayor of D.C., Gray has had a solid tenure, with lower crime and greater growth.
Under his tenure, BP also gained access to Russian oil reserves with the creation of the conglomerate TNK-BP.
Clinton has much to be proud of from her Foggy Bottom tenure, reset included.
But Clapper has also failed fundamentally to stanch the leakage of secrets so emblematic of his tenure atop the community.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries.
His tenure of the governorship of Urmi had been brief; but like the kingship of Roumania was always a pleasant reminiscence.
Under the feudal system the rent was of two classes—personal service or money; the latter was considered base tenure.
Poor Mr. Selwyn had repaired and decorated the house only the previous year, little thinking his tenure of it would be so short.
On revising the statutes good behavior was made the term of tenure for the judges and clerks of common pleas.
It was not till many trials had been made that a satisfactory regulation of the tenure of office was reached.
They believe this personal patronage to be a means of perpetuating their own tenure.
He told himself, however, that his tenure on the situation was too light to be risked.
Our commercial system and system of house tenure are against it.
With one necessary exception all offices are appointive and the tenure of all except that is the same.
He is well paid and holds his position, whatever it may be, by a less precarious tenure than his American congener.
I know not what Eleanor Mowbray, for so she is called, can have to do with the tenure of the estates of Rookwood.
They looked forward, now that the rebellion was crushed, to a prolonged tenure of unchallenged ascendancy.
Not having received any profit from the previous tenure of cottages, he suffers no loss if the tenure be varied.
As the cottages belong to the landowners, fixity or certainty of tenure is like taking their rights from them.
This was the period of what writers call allodial tenure, in distinction from feudal.
Some officials have held office on merit for many years, but their tenure for life is not fixed in the constitutions.
They made the tenure of life and property more than precarious in that far-off section during and after the Civil War.
Such was the tenure of the executive officers who had a veto on all colonial legislation, and of the judicial officers.
It would be, however, a temporal folly as well as a spiritual presumption, to forget the precarious tenure of human existence.
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