Tenure

Definition: Tenure

Tenure

Noun

1. The term during which some position is held.

2. The right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands.

Verb

1. Give life-time employment to; as of university posts; "She was tenured after she published her book".

Date "tenure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Tenure \Ten"ure\, noun. [French expression tenure, Old French teneure, from French tenir to hold. See Tenable.]. (references)

Domain	Definition
Census	A housing unit is "owned" if the owner or co-owner lives in the unit, even if it is mortgaged or not fully paid for. A cooperative or condominium unit is "owned only if the owner or co-owner lives in it. All other occupied units are classified as "rented," including units rented for cash rent and those occupied without payment of cash rent. (references)
	Refers to the distinction between owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing units. Related terms: Housing unit, Owner-occupied housing unit, Renter-occupied housing unit. (references)
	The status of an occupied housing unit as either owner-occupied or renter-occupied. (references)
Economics	The holding, particularly as to manner or term(i. e. period of time), of a property or a post. Source: European Union. (references)
Law	A system of land holdings for a temporary time period. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Tenure

Synonyms: incumbency (n), land tenure (n), term of office (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dueness	Sanction, authority, warranty, charter; warrant; (permission);sanction, authority, warranty, charter; warrant; (permission); constitution; (law); tenure; bond; (security).
Possession	Noun: possession, seizin, seisin; ownership; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency; villenage, villeinage; socage, chivalry, knight service.
Property	Interest, stake, estate, right, claim, demand, holding; tenure; (possession); vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest; use, trust, benefit; legal estate, equitable estate; seizin, seisin.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Your tenure as boss was a short one. Actually, it was unusual in several ways (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Beyond Traditional Tenure (reference) Getting Tenure (Survival Skills for Scholars, Vol 8) (reference) Irish Tenure (reference) Mentor in a Manual: Climbing the Academic Ladder to Tenure (reference) Tenure Track (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Land Tenure Center Newsletter (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	E2 X 10 = Tenure (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Carlile Pollock Patterson 4th Superintendent of the Coast Survey Became Coast and Geodetic Survey during his tenure. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Henry S. Pritchett Ninth Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey Made Bureau of Standards an autonomous agency during his tenure. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	The new South facing its knotty land tenure problem. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
US Declaration of Independence	1776	He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Early into its tenure, the new government announced a Ministerial Inquiry into the electricity industry. (references)
		Secure land tenure, efficient movement through borders and customs, maximum government support, and an enabling environment for public-private partnerships are being vigorously pursued. (references)
Civil Liberties	Azerbaijan	Several professors with tenure are active in opposition parties. (references)
	Iran	To obtain tenure, professors must cooperate with government authorities over a period of years. (references)
	Hong Kong	The paper continued to cover internal PRC politics, but much less often than during Lam's tenure. (references)
Economic History	Dominican Rep	Land tenure also poses difficulties. (references)
	Fiji	One of the main issues of contention is land tenure. (references)
	Guinea	The land tenure code of 1996 provides a legal base for documentation of property ownership. (references)
Human Rights	Guinea	Magistrates are civil servants with no assurance of tenure. (references)
	Moldova	This provision for judicial tenure is designed to increase judicial independence. (references)
	Peru	Critics also charged that since these judges lacked tenure, they were more susceptible to pressures. (references)
Indigenous People	Peru	Nevertheless, according to the director of the Human Rights Ombudsman's Native Communities Program, the only right still statutorily set aside for this native population with respect to its land is that of "unassignability," which prevents the title to such lands from being reassigned to some nonindigenous tenant by right of tenure. (references)
Minorities	Fiji	Many Indo-Fijians, particularly farmers, believe that the absence of secure land tenure discriminates against them. (references)
	Nigeria	The crisis in Kaduna State in 2000 was the first major Muslim-Christian conflict during President Obasanjo's tenure. (references)
Political Economy	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC	A chaotic land tenure system and the unwillingness of large landowners to modernize impede investment in modern agricultural techniques. (references)
	Lesotho	Under the traditional chieftainship structure, land use and tenure is controlled by the traditional chiefs and formally owned by the Kingdom (i.e., "crown lands"). (references)
	COSTA RICA	Squatters enjoy certain rights under Costa Rican land tenure laws and can eventually receive title to the land they occupy if the occupation is left unchallenged by the landowners. (references)
Trade	Colombia	The Government believes in incentives for foreign investment and is currently in the process of reforming key pieces of legislation, which would allow the promotion of foreign investment during the last two years of Pastrana's tenure. (references)
	Yemen	General Financing Availability: International credit ratings of Yemen's commercial banks have been steadily improving, as indicated by international commercial banks' confirming of locally issued L/C's on less than 100% cover and lengthening their tenure from sight to 90-120 days. (references)
	Ghana	Traditional barriers to U.S. exports and investment include: (1) limited Ghanaian purchasing power; (2) complex land tenure system; (3) lack of U.S. interest due to the relatively small market size; (4) limited and costly financing resources for U.S. exporters and Ghanaian buyers; (5) stronger attraction of other overseas markets; (6) more favorable credit terms by European suppliers to local importers; (7) limited information; (8) inadequate credit facilities for local importers; (9) perceived British domination of the market due to traditional ties with Britain; (10) high inflation rate; (11) inadequate business infrastructure, particularly in the telecommunications and road sectors; and (12) bureaucratic hurdles for some documentation. (references)
Women	South Africa	However, the National Policy Framework for Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality reported that some land ownership and tenure practices continue to discriminate against women. (references)
	Nigeria	Although women are not barred legally from owning land, under some customary land tenure systems only men can own land, and women can gain access to land only through marriage or family. (references)
	South Africa	For example, township housing transfer schemes favor existing title holders, who tend to be men, and women in rural areas find it hard to obtain security of tenure, which is a precondition for accessing housing subsidies. (references)
Worker Rights	Paraguay	The Constitution contains several provisions that protect fundamental worker rights, including an antidiscrimination clause, provisions for employment tenure, severance pay for unjustified firings, collective bargaining, and the right to strike. (references)
	Mauritania	Most such disputes were decided in accordance with the law, as the courts ruled that the descendants of the former slaves should inherit their property; however, in some cases involving land tenure, courts reportedly did not uphold the property rights of former slaves. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on condition of praying for the soul of the donor. In mediaeval times many of the wealthiest fraternities obtained their estates in this simple and cheap manner, and once when Henry VIII of England sent an officer to confiscate certain vast possessions which a fraternity of monks held by frankalmoigne, "What!" said the Prior, "would you master stay our benefactor's soul in Purgatory?" "Ay," said the officer, coldly, "an ye will not pray him thence for naught he must e'en roast." "But look you, my son," persisted the good man, "this act hath rank as robbery of God!" "Nay, nay, good father, my master the king doth but deliver him from the manifold temptations of too great wealth."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	A small force in the Mediterranean will still be necessary to restrain the Tripoline cruisers, and the uncertain tenure of peace with some other of the Barbary Powers may eventually require that force to be augmented.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	The sole ground on which indemnity has been refused is the alleged illegality of the tenure by which the monarch who made the seizures held his crown.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Tenure" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.09% of the time. "Tenure" is used about 576 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.09%	565	11,124
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.04%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.69%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	0.17%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	576	N/A

Expressions using "tenure": grant a tenure ♦ granting tenure ♦ land tenure ♦ military tenure ♦ security of tenure ♦ Tenure by fee alms ♦ Tenure by free alms ♦ tenure of office. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "tenure": tenure-track.
	Ending with "tenure": land-tenure, multi-tenure.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "tenure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zotërim (assimilation, command, dominance, domination, enjoyment, grasp, holding, keeping, lordship, mastership, mastery, occupancy, occupation, ownership, possession), pasje (wealth), mbajtje (delivery, deterrence, grip, gripe, hold, holding, keeping, maintenance, occupancy, prehension, preservation, retention, support, tote, wear), kohëmbajtjeje. (various references)

Arabic		‏فترة حكم, ‏منصب (appointment, charge, inaugurated, installed, job, nominated, office, position, post), ‏منح إقطاعية, ‏تول منصبا ما, ‏تثبيت في العمل, ‏إمتلاك الأرض. (various references)

Bulgarian		срок на ползуване на владение, собственост (demesne, havings, ownership, possessions, property, proprietorship), владение (demesne, domain, keeping, occupancy, ownership, possession), заемане на служба, имущество (estate, havings, possession, property, store). (various references)

Chinese		� 有权. (various references)

Czech		pronájem (charter, hire, lease), pacht (tenancy), lenní majetek, držba (ownership, tenancy), definitiva. (various references)

Danish		rådighed (availability), midlertidig ejendomsret til fast ejendom, brugsret (usufruct), besiddelsesform (land tenure). (various references)

Dutch		vruchtgebruik (usufruct, usufructuary), pachtverhouding. (various references)

Farsi		نگهداری 2, حق تصدی , تصرف (Occupancy, Occupation, Possession, Seizure), تصدی (Charge, Commission, Incumbency, Inning), اجاره داری (Tenancy), اشغال (Dump, Jakes, Junk, Litter, Occupancy, Occupation, Refuse, Riffraff, Rubbish, Scrap, Slag, Slither, Sliver, Swill, Tot, Trash). (various references)

Finnish		hallintaoikeus (right of prossession). (various references)

French		tenure. (various references)

German		Besitz (belongings, domain, estate, holding, holdings, occupancy, ownership, possession, premises, property, to acquire property), Besitztitel (tenures). (various references)

Greek		κατοχή (occupancy, occupation, possession, seizin, tenancy), χρόνοσ κατοχήσ, δουλεία (bondage, shebang, slavery, thraldom, thrall). (various references)

Hebrew		ק�"� צי�" (inning, term of office), אחיז�" (anchorage, clutch, grasp, gripe, hold, holding, occupancy, seizing, support), חכיר�" (renting, tenancy), כ�"ו� �" (officiation, priesthood, service), �"חזק�" (holding, maintenance, retention, tenacity). (various references)

Hungarian		használat (application, common right, exertion, right of common, usage, use, wear), birtoklás (holding, occupancy, ownership, possession), haszonélvezet időtartama, használat időtartama, hűbéri szolgálat, hűbéri birtok (feudal tenure), birtoklás időtartama. (various references)

Italian		possesso (belongings, chattel, having, holding, mastery, ownership, possession, property), occupazione (activity, avocation, business, calling, employ, employmen, employment, job, occupancy, occupation, squatting, work), diritto di possesso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		任期中 (during one's tenure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		に�"きちゅう (during one's tenure). (various references)

Korean		임기. (various references)

Manx		cummaltys (occupation). (various references)

Pig Latin		enuretay.(various references)

Portuguese		título de posse, regime de propriedade (land tenure), posse (appropriation, asset, demesne, domain, fruition, gear, grasp, hand, hands, hold, induction, occupancy, occupation, ownership, pleasure, possession, property, proprietorship), ocupação (avocation, business, busyness, calling, chore, duty, employ, employment, engagement, job, labor, labour, occupancy, occupation, office, ploy, profession, racket, service, work, works), mandato (command, mandate, proxy, term of office), gozo (enjoyment, fruition, gladness, gust, joy, pleasure, possession), duração da posse, domínio (ascendance, ascendancy, command, dominance, domination, dominion, energy, estate, lordship, masterdom, mastership, mastery, ownership, power, property, province, realm, regency, reign, rein, ruling), detenção (arrest, custody, detention, deterrence). (various references)

Romanian		titlu de proprietate, termen de stãpânire, proprietate funciarã (land), posesiune (demesne, enjoyment, estate, having, holding, possession), ocupaţiune (activity, business, employment, holding, situation, trade). (various references)

Russian		владение (barony, demesne, dominion, hold, holding, possession), пребывание в должности, пребывание (indwelling, stay). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		stalno mesto, držanje pod zakup. (various references)

Spanish		tenencia (holding, occupancy, occupation, possession, property, tenancy, tenantry), posesión (bedevilment, dependence, dependency, holding, ownership, possession, proprietorship). (various references)

Swedish		innehav (holding), besittningsrätt (occupancy, seisin, seizin), ämbetstid (ministry). (various references)

Turkish		tasarruf hakkı, kullanma (driving, exercise, exploitation, handling, imposition, operating, operation, usage, use, using, utilization, wear), kullanım hakkı (tenancy, usufruct), kira süresi (tenancy), görev süresi (tenure of office). (various references)

Turkmen		stazh (r). (various references)

Ukrainian		тимчасове володіння, володіння (acres, demesne, domain, dominions, enjoyment, having, lordship, occupancy, occupation, ownership, possession, tenancy, tenantry), перебування на посаді (office). (various references)

Vietnamese		thời gian hưởng dụng, thời gian chiếm hữu, sự hưởng dụng, nhiệm kỳ thái ấp, đất phát canh sự chiếm hữu, đất cho l� m rẽ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tenura. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	tenir. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tenure": tenured, tenures. (additional references)
	Words containing "tenure": nontenured, untenured. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tenure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dennure, denure, tanuer, taure, temur, tenar, Tenebrae, tenere, teneure, Tengri, tenir, Tenira, tenour, tenra, tenre, tenture, tenu, tenute, teur, Tienari, Tieoule, Tinari, tonnerre, tucuri. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tenure" (pronounced te"nyer)
3	-n y er	bonier, junior, monsignor, senior.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: neuter, retune, tureen.
	Words within the letters "e-e-n-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: enter, enure, rente, terne, treen, tuner.
	-2 letters: erne, rent, rete, rune, runt, teen, tern, tree, true, tune, turn.
	-3 letters: ere, ern, nee, net, nut, ree, ret, rue, run, rut, tee, ten, tun, urn.
	-4 letters: en, er, et, ne, nu, re, un, ut.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-n-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: denture, neuters, retinue, retuned, retunes, reunite, tenured, tenures, tureens, uterine, venture.
	+2 letters: brunette, ceinture, denature, dentures, deuteron, enuretic, erumpent, esurient, fourteen, frequent, geniture, hereunto, junketer, muenster, mutineer, neutered, numerate, outpreen, preunite, refluent, relucent, renature, retinued, retinues, returned, returnee, returner, reunited, reuniter, reunites, routemen, sauterne, sederunt, trueness, tunneler, uncreate, underate, undereat, underlet, underset, unexpert, unfetter, unrented, unrested, untether, urethane, ventured, venturer, ventures.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
tenure	43	denial tenure	3
teacher tenure	30	law teacher tenure	3
act office tenure	11	tenure track	3
bad good tenure	9	act michigan teacher tenure	2
cons pro tenure	5	define tenure	2
high tenure year	5	letter tenure	2
in pharmaceutical position tenure track	4	foundation indian land tenure	2
law tenure	4	britain in land system tenure	2
act police tenure	4	land tenure	2
definition tenure	4	bad cal good poly tenure	2
lawsuit tenure	4	pastor tenure	2
high navy tenure year	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Tenure

Definition: Tenure

Tenure

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Tenure

Specialty Definition: Tenure

Synonyms: Tenure

Synonyms within Context: Tenure

Dueness

Possession

Property

Crosswords: Tenure

Modern Usage: Tenure

Screenplays

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Books

Periodicals

Music

Photo Album: Tenure

Historic Usage: Tenure

US Declaration of Independence

Use in Literature: Tenure

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Tenure

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Tenure

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Andrew Jackson

Usage Frequency: Tenure

Expressions: Tenure

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tenure

Modern Translation: Tenure

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Anagrams: Tenure

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