Tenure vs Nontenure - What's the difference?
tenure | nontenure |
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).
(legal) A defendant's plea that he/she did not hold the land, as affirmed.
As nouns the difference between tenure and nontenure
is that tenure is a status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency while nontenure is (legal) a defendant's plea that he/she did not hold the land, as affirmed.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.