Definitions for tenure

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tenure ten·ure

Spelling: [ten-yer]

IPA: /ˈtɛn yər/

Tenure is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in tenure (eenrtu).

Definitions for tenure

noun

1. the holding or possessing of anything:
2. the holding of property, especially real property, of a superior in return for services to be rendered.
3. the period or term of holding something.
4. status granted to an employee, usually after a probationary period, indicating that the position or employment is permanent.

verb (used with object)

1. to give tenure to:

Origin of tenure

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French; Old French teneure Vulgar Latin *tenitura, equivalent to *tenit(us) held (for Latin tentus, past participle of tenēre) + -ura -ure<

Examples for tenure

They gave the tenants security of tenure, and the landowners an act of settlement.

His stories about his tenure in Washington hype his success in fixing housing problems in “inner cities.”

In this clip, a teenage Minaj gets heated and throws a phone in a play rehearsal during her tenure at LaGuardia High School.

But that tenure ended when he was sent to prison for five years on a racketeering charge.

Not if the tenure of power is dependent upon its equitable administration.

Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious.

“That was the longest, most severe S/M session I have experienced in my thirty-four-year tenure,” she writes in the book.

Simpson also encountered similar situations during his tenure at the Center.

All magistrates, whatever be their tenure of office, must give an account of their magistracy.

From this point the history of tenure parts into two branches.