tenures
Periods holding positions
Tenures is the plural of tenure, referring to multiple instances of holding a position, office, or property.
The word often appears when comparing how long different people served: Their tenures as CEO averaged three years.
In academia, tenures may refer to the protected employment status granted to professors: The university awarded fewer tenures this year.
Owned piece of terrain
- freeholdPermanent property title
- leaseholdRented property interest
- estateProperty and grounds
- deedWritten property conveyance
title · possession · landlord · proprietor · homestead · inheritance · occupancy · realty
Location or stance
- appointmentScheduled time for something
- termFixed period or word
- serviceAid or maintenance
- incumbencyHolding an official position
stint · posting · assignment · contract · probationary · permanent · fixed-term · career
Senior academic post
- facultyInherent power or ability
- lectureshipAcademic teaching post
- emeritusRetired with distinction
- postdoctoralAfter earning doctorate
fellowship · deanship · chancellorship · sabbatical · department · dissertation · thesis · researcher
Quality of lasting indefinitely
- stabilityResistance to displacement
- guaranteedPromised with certainty
- safeguardedKept from harm
- irremovableCannot be taken out
continuing · assured · vested · entrenched · contractual · protected · unionized
landholding
Owned piece of terrain
deed · title · possession · landlord · proprietor · homestead · inheritance · occupancy · realty · conveyance
position
Location or stance
- appointmentScheduled time for something
- termFixed period or word
- serviceAid or maintenance
incumbency · stint · posting · assignment · contract · probationary · permanent · fixed-term · career · seniority
professorship
Senior academic post
- facultyInherent power or ability
- lectureshipAcademic teaching post
- emeritusRetired with distinction
postdoctoral · fellowship · deanship · chancellorship · sabbatical · department · dissertation · thesis · researcher · scholarship
permanence
Quality of lasting indefinitely
- stabilityResistance to displacement
- guaranteedPromised with certainty
- safeguardedKept from harm
irremovable · continuing · assured · vested · entrenched · contractual · protected · unionized
term
Fixed period or word
time · stint · incumbency · longevity · brevity · extended · short-lived · lifelong · limited · indefinite
tenuresfirings
Terminations of employment
terminations · dismissals · layoffs · sackings · discharges
- tenure protectionsEmployment stability guarantees
- tenured professorFaculty with permanent appointment
- tenure trackProbationary academic employment path
- lifetime tenurePosition held indefinitely
- teacher tenureProtected employment for educators
- academic tenurePermanent professorial employment protection