Tenure vs Tenured - What's the difference?
tenure | tenured |
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).
Having tenure
(tenure)
As verbs the difference between tenure and tenured
is that tenure is to grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone) while tenured is past tense of tenure.As a noun tenure
is a status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.As an adjective tenured is
having tenure.tenure
English
Noun
(en noun)- All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.