tenure

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English tenure, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French tenure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura.

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Noun

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tenure (countable and uncountable, plural tenures)

  1. A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
    • 1781 (date written), William Cowper, “Expostulation”, in Poems, London: [] J[oseph] Johnson, [], →OCLC:
      All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.
    • 2022 November 16, Christian Wolmar, “Can Merriman use his rail knowledge to make a difference?”, in RAIL, number 970, page 45:
      It will be rather entertaining to watch Merriman when he first faces the Transport Select Committee, with his former colleagues likely to be merciless in their questioning. During his tenure, Merriman was pretty sharp, which was no bad thing, and they will make sure he gets a dose of his own medicine.
  2. A period of time during which something is possessed.
  3. A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
  4. A right to hold land under the feudal system.

Synonyms

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  • (a status of possessing a thing or an office): incumbency

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Verb

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tenure (third-person singular simple present tenures, present participle tenuring, simple past and past participle tenured)

  1. (transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).

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tenure f (plural tenures)

  1. (historical) tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system)

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Middle English

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Noun

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tenure

  1. Alternative form of tenour

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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tenure oblique singularf (oblique plural tenures, nominative singular tenure, nominative plural tenures)

  1. tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system)
  2. holding (of land); estate
  3. tenure, right of possession
    • 1283, Philippe de Beaumanoir, Les Coutumes de Beauvaisis, available in page 237 of this document
      le longue tenure qu'il alliguent ne lor vaut riens
      The long tenure that they are claiming is worth nothing to them

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