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the term during which some position is held;
or: the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands;
or: giving or describing permanent employment to

It is a bear skull, the remains of a grizzly shot by someone who visited the bus years before McCandless's tenure.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

tenure = time spent in a place

And yet I can think of no student during my tenure as Director who has been more deserving.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
He accompanied her up the hill, explaining to her the details of his forthcoming tenure of the other farm.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
The tenure of judges concerns how long they stay in office, how they will be paid, and precautions for their responsibility.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
Which meant that she would have had to start her tenure at SMP with damaging cutbacks in staff.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
He's got tenure, though, and he's never been caught at anything completely untoward.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
Nothing so surprising had happened in his whole tenure as deputy.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
He said that he would make this camp just as Omori had been under his tenure.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
Not at all the way she wanted to end her tenure at Millennium.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
IT TAKES SOME OF US a long time to find out what the price is of being in nature, and what the facts are about your tenure.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
Harlon Block's tenure as the heir to Mike Strank lasted until dusk.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
He was about to become a tenured Harvard professor.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
Now, however, it took no great sensibility to feel that poor Ralph's tenure of life was less elastic than it should be.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
The Leather-Stocking is much given to impeach the justice of the tenure by which the whites hold the country.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
If so, my tenure in this world is short.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
Thomas Jefferson et al. -- The Declaration of Independence
Her voice sounds irritated and impatient, like some of Dad's tenured colleagues at school who Dad says are just counting the days till retirement.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
Mr Dorrit was in the habit of receiving this old man as if the old man held of him in vassalage under some feudal tenure.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
The tenure by which the judges are to hold their places, is, as it unquestionably ought to be, that of good behavior.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers

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