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Definition of Tenure
1. Verb. Give life-time employment to. "She was tenured after she published her book"
Generic synonyms: Advance, Elevate, Kick Upstairs, Promote, Raise, Upgrade
2. Noun. The term during which some position is held.
Generic synonyms: Term
Specialized synonyms: Administration, Presidency, Presidential Term, Vice-presidency, Vice-presidential Term, Episcopate
Derivative terms: Incumbent
3. Noun. The right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands.
Generic synonyms: Legal Right
Specialized synonyms: Copyhold, Freehold, Villeinage
Definition of Tenure
1. n. The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.
Definition of Tenure
1. Noun. A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency. ¹
2. Noun. A period of time during which it is possessed. ¹
3. Noun. A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution. ¹
4. Noun. A right to hold land under the feudal system. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tenure
1. to grant tenure (the status of holding one's position on a permanent basis) to [v -URED, -URING, -URES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenure
Literary usage of Tenure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Nature of feudal tenure.—Almost all the real property of this kingdom is by the
policy of our laws supposed to be granted by, dependent upon and holden of ..."
2. Journal by English Place-Name Society (1906)
"... in the tenure of Donogh McDonell ny Cartin and Moylan Me ... f car, lately in
the tenure of Will O'Murrihy; £ of the same lately in the tenure of Teige ..."
3. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"Unfree tenure. Freehold The tenures of which we have hitherto spoken are free
tenure. ... To free tenure is opposed villein tenure, to the free tenement the ..."
4. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"509 ration of Charles II., * tenure by knight service, with all its grievous
incidents, was by statute abolished, and the tenure of land was, ..."
5. Annual Report by United States Civil Service Commission (1898)
"The best interests of the service require that tue tenure of Govern- ent employees
... A fixed tenure for a certain number of years, as has been proposed, ..."
6. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1832)
"tenure by knight service, with all its grievous incidents, was by statute abolished,
and the tenure of land was, for the most part, turned into free and ..."
7. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1836)
"Socage tenure denotes lands held by a fixed and determinate service, which is
not military, nor in the power of the lord to vary at his pleasure. ..."
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