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Tenure Holding Fact Status Position Guaranteed Office University

正面 5056.tenure
英 ['tenjə]美 ['tɛnjɚ]

背面
释义:
n. 任期;占有vt. 授予…终身职位
例句:
1. his four-year tenure as President他的四年总统任期

1. ten- "hold" + -ure.2. => holding of a tenement.3. => condition or fact of holding a status, position, or occupation.4. => "guaranteed tenure of office" (usually at a university or school).
tenure 任职,任期ten-,持有,握住,-ure,名词后缀。
tenuretenure: see tenanttenure (n.)early 15c., "holding of a tenement," from Anglo-French and Old French tenure "a tenure, estate in land" (13c.), from Old French tenir "to hold," from Vulgar Latin *tenire, from Latin tenere "to hold" (see tenet). The sense of "condition or fact of holding a status, position, or occupation" is first attested 1590s. Meaning "guaranteed tenure of office" (usually at a university or school) is recorded from 1957. Related: Tenured (1961)."

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