Usually means: Permanent job status for professors.
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  1. tenure: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tenure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tenure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tenure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tenure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tenure, tenure: Wordnik
  7. tenure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tenure: Wiktionary
  9. tenure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tenure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tenure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tenure: Dictionary.com
  13. tenure: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tenure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tenure (academic), Tenure (film), Tenure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tenure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tenure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tenure: Rhymezone
  19. Tenure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tenure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tenure: Free Dictionary
  22. tenure: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. tenure: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. tenure: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. tenure: Glossary of research economics
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  12. Tenure (education), tenure: Legal dictionary
  13. Tenure (education), tenure: Financial dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. Tenure (education), Tenure (law), tenure: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Tenure (education), tenure: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tenure: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See tenurable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
noun:  A period of time during which something is possessed.
noun:  A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
noun:  A right to hold land under the feudal system.
verb:  (transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).

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