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• the conditions under which land or buildings are held or occupied.

Similar: tenancy, occupancy, holding, occupation, residence, possession, title, ownership, proprietorship,

• the holding of an office.

• "his tenure of the premiership would be threatened"

Similar: incumbency, term of office, term, period of/in office, time, time in office,

• guaranteed permanent employment, especially as a teacher or lecturer, after a probationary period; security of tenure.

• "tenure for university staff has been abolished"

• give (someone) a permanent post, especially as a teacher or lecturer.

• "I had recently been tenured and then promoted to full professor"

Origin: late Middle English: from Old French, from tenir ‘to hold’, from Latin tenere .

• the right of a tenant of property to occupy it after the lease expires (unless a court should order otherwise).