# tenure
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈtɛn.jʊə/, /ˈtɛn.jə/
* (US) IPA: /ˈtɛn.jɚ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

tenure (countable and uncountable, plural tenures)
* A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
** 1781 (date written), William Cowper, “Expostulation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1782, →OCLC:All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.
** 2022 November 16, Christian Wolmar, “Can Merriman use his rail knowledge to make a difference?”, in RAIL, number 970, page 45:It will be rather entertaining to watch Merriman when he first faces the Transport Select Committee, with his former colleagues likely to be merciless in their questioning. During his tenure, Merriman was pretty sharp, which was no bad thing, and they will make sure he gets a dose of his own medicine.
** 2024 November 17, Phil McNulty, “England 5-0 Republic of Ireland”, in BBC Sport‎:Carsley ended his six-game tenure as England's interim manager in the same way he started it, with a comfortable victory over the nation he represented with distinction as a player.
* 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

* tenure-track

#### Related terms

* tenant
* tenurial

#### Translations

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### Verb

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
### Anagrams

* neuter, retune, run tee, tureen, untree

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tə.nyʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### 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

* eurent, neutre, retenu, teneur

## 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 riensThe long tenure that they are claiming is worth nothing to them

### References

* 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