tenure

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English tenure, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French tenure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.jʊə/, /ˈtɛn.jə/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.jɚ/ (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈten.jə/ Hyphenation: ten‧ure === Noun === tenure (countable and uncountable, plural tenures) A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency. 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. ==== Synonyms ==== (a status of possessing a thing or an office): incumbency ==== Derived terms ==== land tenure tenure-track ==== Related terms ==== tenant tenurial ==== Translations ==== === Verb === tenure (third-person singular simple present tenures, present participle tenuring, simple past and past participle tenured) (transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone). ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === neuter, retune, run tee, tureen, untree == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tə.nyʁ/ === Noun === tenure f (plural tenures) (historical) tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system) === Further reading === “tenure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === eurent, neutre, retenu, teneur == Middle English == === Noun === tenure alternative form of tenour == Old French == === Alternative forms === teneure (common), teneüre, tenëure (diaereses are not universally used in Old French transcriptions) tenuire tennure tenour tenuere === Noun === tenure oblique singular, f (oblique plural tenures, nominative singular tenure, nominative plural tenures) tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system) holding (of land); estate tenure, right of possession 1283, Philippe de Beaumanoir, Les Coutumes de Beauvaisis, available in page 237 of this document === References === Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (teneure) tenure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub