Duration vs Tenure - What's the difference?
duration | tenure |
An amount of time or a particular time interval.
The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war
(finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.
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).
As nouns the difference between duration and tenure
is that duration is an amount of time or a particular time interval while tenure is a status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.As a verb tenure is
to grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).duration
English
Noun
(en noun)- Rationing will last at least for the duration .
See also
* * (Bond duration) *dictionary.reference.comentry
tenure
English
Noun
(en noun)- All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.