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Tenure Period Noun Legal Live Building Piece Land

word tenure
definition
noun
Tenure is the legal right to live in a particular building or to use a particular piece of land during a fixed period of time.
Lack of security of tenure was a reason for many families becoming homeless.
Tenure is the period of time during which someone holds an important job .
...the three-year tenure of the President.
He was in the middle of his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry and at the height of his fame.
If you have tenure in your job, you have the right to keep it until you retire .
Junior staff have only a slim chance of getting tenure.
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