noun [U]
1 the period of time when sb holds an important job, especially a political one; the act of holding an important job:
his four-year tenure as President * She knew that tenure of high political office was beyond her.
2 the right to stay permanently in your job, especially as a teacher at a university:
It's still extremely difficult to get tenure.
3 the legal right to live in a house or use a piece of land:
When you rent a house here, you don't have security of tenure.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tenure is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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