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noun
1.
the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
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)
5.
to give tenure to: After she served three years on probation, the committee tenured her.
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Origin:
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
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
Related forms
ten·u·ri·al·ly, adverb
non·ten·u·ri·al, adjective
non·ten·u·ri·al·ly, adverb
un·der·ten·ure, noun
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Word Origin & History
tenure
1414, "holding of a tenement," from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. tenure "a tenure, estate in land" (13c.), from O.Fr. tenir "to hold," from V.L. *tenire, from L. tenere "to hold" (see tenet). The sense of "condition or fact of holding a status, position, or occupation" is first attested
EXPAND1599. Meaning "guaranteed tenure of office" (usually at a university or school) is recorded from 1957.
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