tenure
English
Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French tenure, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura.
Pronunciation
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Noun
tenure (countable and uncountable, plural tenures)
- 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.
- Cowper
- 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
Related terms
Translations
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
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Verb
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- (transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
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
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
- 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
- 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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