Tenure vs Employment - What's the difference?
tenure | employment | Related terms |
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).
A use, purpose
* 1873 , John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
The act of employing
The state of being employed
* 1853 , Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener'', in ''Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.3:
The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
An activity to which one devotes time
(economics) The number or percentage of people at work
Tenure is a related term of employment.
As nouns the difference between tenure and employment
is that tenure is a status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency while employment is a use, purpose.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
(tenur)References
Anagrams
* * * * ----employment
English
Noun
(wikipedia employment)- This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
- ''The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
- At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment , and a promising lad as an office-boy.