Tenure - What does it mean?
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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).
tenure
English
Noun
(en noun)- All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.
