Question

tenure I know two assistant professors who are so worried about being denied tenure this year that they can't sleep. ˈtɛnjər

Accepted Answer

(1) The amount of time that a person holds a job, office, or title. (2) The right to keep a job, especially the job of teacher or professor. Tenure is about holding on to something, almost always a job or position. So you can speak of someone's 30-year tenure as chairman, or someone's brief tenure in the sales manager's office. But tenure means something slightly different in the academic world. In American colleges and universities, the best (or luckiest) teachers have traditionally been granted a lifetime appointment known as tenure after about six years of teaching. Almost nobody has as secure a job as a tenured professor, but getting tenure can be difficult, and most of them have earned it

word	tenure
definition	(1) The amount of time that a person holds a job, office, or title. (2) The right to keep a job, especially the job of teacher or professor.
eg_sentence	I know two assistant professors who are so worried about being denied tenure this year that they can't sleep.
explanation	Tenure is about holding on to something, almost always a job or position. So you can speak of someone's 30-year tenure as chairman, or someone's brief tenure in the sales manager's office. But tenure means something slightly different in the academic world. In American colleges and universities, the best (or luckiest) teachers have traditionally been granted a lifetime appointment known as tenure after about six years of teaching. Almost nobody has as secure a job as a tenured professor, but getting tenure can be difficult, and most of them have earned it
IPA	ˈtɛnjər

Tenure Job Someone's Amount Time Person Holds Office