Definition of Tenure

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Tenure

The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.

The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.

The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.

Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure.

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Tenure Quotations

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Hubert H. Humphrey

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
William Weld

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.
Dick Thornburgh

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.
James E. Rogers

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.
Eisaku Sato

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.
Robert Evans

The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.
Emile Lahoud

Tenure Translations

tenure in French is tenure
tenure in German is Besitz, Besitztitel
tenure in Latin is tenura

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