tenure

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman, from Old French tenure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.jɚ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.jə/

Noun

tenure (countable and uncountable, plural tenures)

1. A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
   • Cowper

     All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.

2. A period of time during which something is possessed.
3. A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
4. A right to hold land under the feudal system.

Synonyms

• (a status of possessing a thing or an office): incumbency

Derived terms

• tenure-track

Related terms

• tenant
• tenurial

Translations

a status of possessing a thing or an office

• Finnish: virassapysymisoikeus
• German: Besitz (de) m
• Greek: θητεία (el) f (thiteía)
• Italian: essere titolare m, permanenza f in carica f, gestione (it) f
• Japanese: 保有 (ja) (hoyū)

• Romanian: posesie (ro) f
• Russian: владе́ние (ru) n (vladénije)
• Spanish: tenencia
• Telugu: పదవీ కాలం (padavī kālaṃ)

a period of time possessed

• Finnish: virassaoloaika, virkakausi
• German: Amtszeit (de)
• Greek: κατοχή (el) f (katochí)
• Italian: durata f di un incarico m, di un mandato m
• Japanese: 保有期間 (hoyū kikan)

• Polish: kadencja (pl) f
• Romanian: durată de mandat f, durata posesiei, termen de stăpânire n
• Serbo-Croatian: mandat (sh)
• Spanish: antigüedad (es)
• Telugu: పదవీ కాలం (padavī kālaṃ)

a status of having a permanent post

• Dutch: vastbenoemd zijn, een vaste benoeming hebben
• French: titularisation (fr) f
• German: Bekleidung (de) f, Innehaben n
• Greek: μονιμότητα (el) f (monimótita)

• Italian: essere di ruolo or titolare m di una cattedra f
• Japanese: 終身 (ja) (shuūshin)
• Romanian: posesie (ro) f, ocupare (ro) f

a right to hold land

• Finnish: hallintaoikeus (fi), hallussapito
• French: tenure (fr) f
• German: Besitztitel m, Besitzanspruch
• Greek: δικαίωμα γαιοκτησίας f (dikaíoma gaioktisías)

• Italian: godimento di un terreno
• Japanese: 世襲 (seshū)
• Romanian: drept de posesie n

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ambtstermijn m
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 임기 (imgi)

• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 佔有權, ^{(please verify)} 占有权
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} arrendamiento m

Verb

tenure (third-person singular simple present tenures, present participle tenuring, simple past and past participle tenured)

1. (transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).

Anagrams

• neuter, retune, run tee, tureen

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tə.nyʁ/

Noun

tenure f (plural tenures)

1. (historical) tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system)

Anagrams

• eurent, neutre, retenu, teneur

Further reading

• “tenure” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Old French

Alternative forms

• teneure (common), teneüre, tenëure (diaereses are not universally used in Old French transcriptions)
• tenuire
• tennure
• tenour
• tenuere

Noun

tenure f (oblique plural tenures, nominative singular tenure, nominative plural tenures)

1. tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system)
2. holding (of land); estate
3. tenure, right of possession
   • 1283, Philippe de Beaumanoir, Les Coutumes de Beauvaisis, available in page 237 of this document

     le longue tenure qu'il alliguent ne lor vaut riens

     The long tenure that they are claiming is worth nothing to them

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (teneure)
• tenure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub