Tenure definition
An example of tenure is holding a piece of property in your possession only until death as part of a real estate agreement.
An example of tenure is a teacher being guaranteed a job at a school where she's taught for a predetermined amount of time.
A teacher granted tenure on a faculty.
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Origin of tenure
- Middle English from Old French teneure from tenir to hold from Latin tenēre to hold ten- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Anglo-Norman, from Old French teneure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenit(us), from Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura.
From Wiktionary