TENURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenure mean? 

• TENURE (noun)
  The noun TENURE has 2 senses:

1. the term during which some position is held

2. the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands

  Familiarity information: TENURE used as a noun is rare.

• TENURE (verb)
  The verb TENURE has 1 sense:

1. give life-time employment to

  Familiarity information: TENURE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The term during which some position is held

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

incumbency; tenure; term of office

Hypernyms ("tenure" is a kind of...):

term (a limited period of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tenure"):

administration; presidency; presidential term (the tenure of a president)

vice-presidency; vice-presidential term (the tenure of a vice president)

episcopate (the term of office of a bishop)

Derivation:

tenure (give life-time employment to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

land tenure; tenure

Hypernyms ("tenure" is a kind of...):

legal right (a right based in law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tenure"):

copyhold (a medieval form of land tenure in England; a copyhold was a parcel of land granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for agricultural services)

freehold (tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life)

villeinage (tenure by which a villein held land)

• TENURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tenure    ... he / she / it tenures   
Past simple: tenured   
Past participle: tenured   
-ing form: tenuring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give life-time employment to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

She was tenured after she published her book

Hypernyms (to "tenure" is one way to...):

advance; elevate; kick upstairs; promote; raise; upgrade (give a promotion to or assign to a higher position)

Domain category:

academe; academia (the academic world)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

tenure (the term during which some position is held)

 Context examples 

Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The king would be the most absolute prince in the universe, if he could but prevail on a ministry to join with him; but these having their estates below on the continent, and considering that the office of a favourite has a very uncertain tenure, would never consent to the enslaving of their country.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)