Definitions for tenured

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tenured ten·ured

Spelling: [ten-yerd]

IPA: /ˈtɛn yərd/

Tenured is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in tenured (deenrtu).

Definitions for tenured

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.

adjective

1. of, having, or eligible for tenure, especially in a college or university:
2. granting, allowing, or leading to tenure:

verb (used with object)

1. to give tenure to:

Origin of tenured

First recorded in 1960-65; tenure + -ed³

Examples for tenured

Even though I was tenured, if I left my once-beloved Mormon faith, I would lose my job.

Those protests reached their height when the first tenured black professor, Derrick Bell Jr., resigned from the faculty.

If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!

At this point, says Campos, law school is largely serving the needs of only one group: tenured law professors.

I feel this way now more than ever, because I took a big risk and quit a tenured job at an M.F.A. program.

London, Ontario, for the simple reason that my partner has a tenured university position here.

So instead, he taught a semester here and a semester there, filling in for tenured writers who were off somewhere else, writing.

One interpretation suggests he is the embodiment of whisky, a lewd allusion to a tenured tradition of Scottish alcoholism.

He is one of very few (if any) coaches to have remained a tenured professor.

At that time, only five of 60 tenured professors were women.