0 being the legal owner of land, a job, or an official public position, or the period of time during which you own it: --
1 the period of time when someone holds a job, esp. an official position, or the right to keep a job permanently: --
2 the period of time during which someone is in an important job or position: --
3 the right to remain permanently in a job, especially as a teacher at a university: --
What grounds did the university give for denying tenure to you?
have tenure He took a semester off from UA, where he has tenure.
The whole question of traditional ' feudal ' tenures and their demise complicates matters enormously.
In the middle range of officialdom life tenures were much more common, though certainly not invariable.
Instead, the strategies suitable for obtaining housing of different tenures appear to encourage differences in family formation, especially early fertility or its postponement.
Agricultural prosperity rested on secure tenures that made the substantial farmers feel themselves to be full proprietors.
Our sub-set therefore represented various geographical locations, housing types and tenures, and diverse perspectives on moving or staying put.
One major set of threats to internal validity are history and maturation among the subjects due to different tenures or closer relationships with vendors.
On the other hand, active skilled workers and apprentices (enrolled in the skilled workers' training school) held longer tenures.
Further, institutions have explored various options to influence tenured faculty to forgo their tenured position by providing buyouts, phased retirement, and other arrangements.