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tenure
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The Last Lecture
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Even as a tenured professor who could afford something better, I lived in a $450-a-month attic apartment with a fire-escape walkup.
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tenured = successful (having been granted the right to keep a job as long as desired)
I wished all of those tenured professors would just chew faster.†
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I once put "get tenure" on my to-do list.†
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After I got tenure, I brought Tommy and others on my research team down to Disney World as a way of saying thanks.†
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You're not even tenured yet.†
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"I'm going to remember this when your tenure case comes up," he said.†
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The Friday Night Solution I GOT TENURE a year earlier than people usually do.†
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"Wow, you got tenure early," they'd say to me.†
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Show Gratitude NOT LONG after I got tenure at the University of Virginia, I took my entire fifteen-person research team down to Disney World for a week as my way of saying thank you.†
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Perhaps he thought I was setting a precedent that other soon-to-be-tenured professors would be unwilling to equal.†
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One coworker recalled advice I gave him when he was a non-tenured faculty member.†
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Definitions:

(1) (tenure as in: during her tenure)
the time period during which a position or right is held
(2) (tenure as in: she was granted tenure)
right to keep a job as long as desired -- often earned by professors after years of service
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)