tenure

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   give life-time employment to

   I was tenured after many years of teaching and research.

2. 2
   noun

   A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.

   All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.

3. 3
   noun

   the right to hold property

4. 4
   noun

   the term during which some position is held

5. 5
   noun

   A period of time during which something is possessed.

6. 6
   noun

   A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.

7. 7
   noun

   A right to hold land under the feudal system.

8. 8
   verb

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

Etymology

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