tenure(1. the period of time when someone has an important job or position: • During his four-year tenure as president, the firm's annual revenue rose dramatically. 2. the right to stay permanently in a job, for example a teaching job in a university: • the life tenure of judges at the State Courts 3. LAW the legal right to live in a house or use a piece of land: • inequalities in land tenure – see also security of tenure. LBED Alexander Demidov)
