tenure
nounEtymology
From Middle English tenure, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French tenure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura.
- derived from tentus
- derived from *tenitura✻
- derived from tenure
- inherited from tenure
Definitions
A status of possessing a thing or an office
A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
- All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.
- Carsley ended his six-game tenure as England's interim manager in the same way he started it, with a comfortable victory over the nation he represented with distinction as a player.
A period of time during which something is possessed.
A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic…
A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
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A right to hold land under the feudal system.
To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at tenure. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at tenure. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at tenure
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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