tenure
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English tenure, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French tenure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tenure (countable and uncountable, plural tenures)
- A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
- 1782, William Cowper, “Expostulation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], OCLC 1029672464:
- All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.
- 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[edit]
- (a status of possessing a thing or an office): incumbency
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
status of possessing a thing or an office
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period of time possessed
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status of having a permanent post
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right to hold land under the feudal system
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Verb[edit]
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[edit]
to grant tenure
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Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tenure f (plural tenures)
- (historical) tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system)
Further reading[edit]
- “tenure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
tenure
- Alternative form of tenour
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- teneure (common), teneüre, tenëure (diaereses are not universally used in Old French transcriptions)
- tenuire
- tennure
- tenour
- tenuere
Noun[edit]
tenure 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
- le longue tenure qu'il alliguent ne lor vaut riens
- The long tenure that they are claiming is worth nothing to them
- le longue tenure qu'il alliguent ne lor vaut riens
- 1283, Philippe de Beaumanoir, Les Coutumes de Beauvaisis, available in page 237 of this document
References[edit]
- 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
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