1. The term during which some position is held
   "The president's tenure is limited to two four-year periods";
   - term of office, incumbency
    
2. The right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands
   "Feudal land tenure systems determined how land was owned and used in medieval Europe";
   - land tenure

1. (academia) give life-time employment to
   "She was tenured after she published her book"

Derived forms: tenures, tenuring, tenured

Type of: advance, elevate, kick upstairs [informal], legal right, promote, raise, term, upgrade

Encyclopedia: Tenure, Ecclesiastical