Tenure vs Tenant - What's the difference?
tenure | tenant |
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).
One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
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One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
* Cowper
* Cowley
* Byron
(legal) One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
As nouns the difference between tenure and tenant
is that tenure is a status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency while tenant is one who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.As verbs the difference between tenure and tenant
is that tenure is to grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone) while tenant is to hold as, or be, a tenant.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
* * * * ----tenant
English
Alternative forms
* tenaunt (obsolete) * tennant (obsolete) * tennaunt (obsolete)Noun
(Leasehold estate) (en noun)- sweet tenants of this grove
- the happy tenant of your shade
- the sister tenants of the middle deep
