Tenure vs Avocation - What's the difference?
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A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
* Cowper
A period of time during which something is possessed.
A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
A right to hold land under the feudal system.
To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).
(obsolete) A calling away; a diversion.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 204:
A hobby or recreational or leisure pursuit.
* 1934 , Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
*:But yield who will to their separation,
*:My object in living is to unite
*:My avocation and my vocation
*:As my two eyes make one in sight.
That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
Tenure is a related term of avocation.
As nouns the difference between tenure and avocation
is that tenure is a status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency while avocation is (obsolete) a calling away; a diversion.As a verb tenure
is to grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).tenure
English
Noun
(en noun)- All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.
Synonyms
(a status of possessing a thing or an office) incumbencyDerived terms
* tenure-trackVerb
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English
(wikipedia avocation)Noun
(en noun)- But though she could neither sleep nor rest in her bed, yet, having no avocation from it, she was found there by her father at his return from Allworthy's, which was not till past ten o'clock in the morning.