From Middle English tenure, from Anglo-Norman -, from Old French tenure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura.

• (British) IPA: /ˈtɛn.jʊə/, /ˈtɛn.jə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈtɛn.jɚ/

tenure

1. A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
   • 1781 (date written), William Cowper, “Expostulation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC ↗:

     All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.

2. A period of time during which something is possessed.
3. A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
4. A right to hold land under the feudal system.

• (a status of possessing a thing or an office) incumbency

• tenant
• tenurial

• German: Besitz
• Italian: essere titolare, permanenza in carica, gestione
• Portuguese: tença
• Russian: владе́ние
• Spanish: tenencia

• German: Amtszeit
• Italian: durata di un incarico, durata di un mandato
• Russian: срок владение
• Spanish: antigüedad

• French: titularisation
• German: Bekleidung, Innehaben
• Italian: essere di ruolo, titolare di una cattedra
• Portuguese: estabilidade
• Russian: пребывание в должность
• Spanish: titularidad, permanencia

• French: tenure
• German: Besitztitel, Besitzanspruch
• Italian: godimento di un terreno

tenure (tenures, present participle tenuring; simple past and past participle tenured)

1. (transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).

• Portuguese: efetivar