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tenure
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[ noun ] the term during which some position is held
Synonyms Used in print (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social , cultural , or literary traditions than he was within the traditions - or possibly the regulations - governing his tenure in the post_office at Oxford , Mississippi , thirty-five years ago . (Doris Miles Disney, Mrs. Meeker's Money....)Tenure , too . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (law) the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands
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