All 30 Uses
tenure
in
Typical American, by Gish Jen
(Edited)
- Another, but over and over, with a collective sigh, the company was dragged back to its apparent fate, congratulating Old Chao on having received a tenure-track job offer just that afternoon.
Chpt 2.14tenure = right to keep a job as long as desired
- What Ralph would have done then to leave with him — good-by, Old Chao and his tenure-track job offer!
Chpt 2.14
- But when, shortly after they hung the shelf, Ralph was blessed with a tenure-track job (Old Chao had put in a word for him), they thanked their parents for whatever help they might have been.
Chpt 2.18
- No one seemed to mind that Old Chao had not only been granted tenure but was now acting chairman of Ralph's department.
Chpt 3.19tenure = the right to keep a job as long as desired
- A real estate agent had convinced them that they shouldn't do anything until Ralph had tenure; otherwise they might find themselves "overcommitted."
Chpt 3.21 *
- Ralph wasn't going to get tenure; or at least it wasn't definite.
Chpt 3.22
- Then there were lecturers, then there were assistant professors, then there were tenured professors.
Chpt 3.22tenured = having been granted the right to keep a job as long as desired
- Tenure, tenure, tenure.
Chpt 3.22tenure = the right to keep a job as long as desired
- Tenure, tenure, tenure.
Chpt 3.22
- Tenure, tenure, tenure.
Chpt 3.22
- If Ralph gets tenure, this, they said.
Chpt 3.22
- If Ralph gets tenure, that.
Chpt 3.22
- For our income, they figured out how much I'll make, added that to how much Ralph will make once he gets tenure.
Chpt 3.23tenure = a higher status that includes the right to keep a job as long as desired
- TENURE.
Chpt 3.25tenure = the right to keep a job as long as desired
- Of course, he had always been convinced he would get tenure.
Chpt 3.25
- He strove to appear sure he would get tenure.
Chpt 3.25
- Tenure?
Chpt 3.25
- Tenure!
Chpt 3.25
- Before he made it, he would have said that he yearned for a larger tenure than any department could grant; to go with his professional tenure, a sort of life tenure.
Chpt 4.27tenure = increased status and the right to keep a position as long as desired
- Before he made it, he would have said that he yearned for a larger tenure than any department could grant; to go with his professional tenure, a sort of life tenure.
Chpt 4.27
- Before he made it, he would have said that he yearned for a larger tenure than any department could grant; to go with his professional tenure, a sort of life tenure.
Chpt 4.27
- The department had approved his tenure, the College of Engineering had approved it, the university had approved it.
Chpt 4.27tenure = the right to keep a position as long as desired
- He taught proudly, like a great professor, a professor everyone agreed deserved his tenure.
Chpt 4.27tenure = right to keep a position as long as desired
- His very first class with tenure, due to a shortage of space, was in a tower.
Chpt 4.27tenure = having been granted the right to keep a job as long as desired
- And now, with tenure.
Chpt 4.27tenure = the right to keep a position as long as desired
- Tenure.
Chpt 4.27
- What a pulse-quickening idea to the nontenured!
Chpt 4.27nontenured = employment without a guarantee of permanencestandard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nontenured means not and reverses the meaning of tenured. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
- You just got tenure.
Chpt 4.28tenure = the right to keep a position as long as desired
- BUT HE just got tenure!
Chpt 4.29
- And with what might he had striven for tenure!
Chpt 4.29tenure = the right to keep a job as long as desired
Definitions:
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(1)
(tenure as in: during her tenure) the time period during which a position or right is held
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(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)