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词汇 tenure
释义 tenure
noun[ U ]
 formaluk /ˈten.jər//ˈtenjʊər/ us /ˈten.jɚ/
being the legal owner of land, a job, or an official public position, or the period of time during which you own it: 占有;使用权;使用期;任期;保有期
During his tenure as dean, he had a real influence on the students.他在当教务长期间,对学生们影响很大。
the right to remain permanently in a job: 终身职位
have tenureShe is one of the few people in the English Department who has tenure.她是英语系少数几个获得了终身职位的讲师之一。
tenure-trackUSTenure-track professors (= those likely to get tenure) who don't publish enough work may not be offered tenure.
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untenured
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tenure | American Dictionary


tenure
noun[ U ]
us/ˈten·jər/
the period of time when someone holds a job, esp. an official position, or the right to keep a job permanently:
During his tenure as mayor, relations with the police department worsened.
Michelle has tenure in her new teaching position.

tenure | Business English


tenure
noun
 formaluk /ˈtenjər/us
[ C ] WORKPLACE
the period of time during which someone is in an important job or position:
His 14-year tenure included some of the store's best times.
sb's tenure as sthSeven years ago, I began my official tenure as lab director.
under sb's tenureListings at the NYSE soared under his tenure.
[ U ] WORKPLACE
the right to remain permanently in a job, especially as a teacher at a university:
have tenureHe took a semester off from UA, where he has tenure.
What grounds did the university give for denying tenure to you?
[ U ] LAW, PROPERTY
the legal right to use a piece of land or a property:
grant sb tenureThey were not granted tenure to the land.

See also


job tenure
security of tenure

Examples of tenure


tenure
The figures in parentheses indicate the tenures of employment (the bold lines) expressed in months.
Housing associations have been thrown off-balance by the combination of increased responsibilities, the reduction in the proportion of funding coming from government, and changed tenures.
Regionally, the relationship between site value and market value within tenures is not straightforward.
He was tenured in a startlingly fast four years!
The exception is stranger farmers who are not members of the local tribe and face limited access and uncertain tenures.
I suppose then that tenured professors get to make the best colon quips because they can afford to.
One late twelfth-century charter indicates that some military sergeanty tenures were the direct descendants of ministerial thanage holdings.
Further, institutions have explored various options to influence tenured faculty to forgo their tenured position by providing buyouts, phased retirement, and other arrangements.
On the other hand, active skilled workers and apprentices (enrolled in the skilled workers' training school) held longer tenures.
One major set of threats to internal validity are history and maturation among the subjects due to different tenures or closer relationships with vendors.
Our sub-set therefore represented various geographical locations, housing types and tenures, and diverse perspectives on moving or staying put.
Agricultural prosperity rested on secure tenures that made the substantial farmers feel themselves to be full proprietors.
Instead, the strategies suitable for obtaining housing of different tenures appear to encourage differences in family formation, especially early fertility or its postponement.
In the middle range of officialdom life tenures were much more common, though certainly not invariable.
The whole question of traditional ' feudal ' tenures and their demise complicates matters enormously.
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Collocations withtenure


tenure

These are words often used in combination with tenure.

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brief tenure
I certainly hope that he will have a very distinguished and brieftenure of office.
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four-year tenure
If parent governors are to have a four-year tenure of office, there will be difficulties.
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length of tenure
Thus, lengthoftenure must be some indicator of performance.
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