tenure
tenure 英 [ˈtenjə(r)] 美 [ˈtɛnjɚ, -ˌjʊr]
n. 任期，任职；终身职位
名词复数:tenures
- Take the noun tenure for the period of time a person holds a position or office. Your tenure as a student ends when you graduate high school — unless, of course, you go on to college.
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- n. 任期，任职；终身职位
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1. his four-year tenure as President
他的四年总统任期
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2. She knew that tenure of high political office was beyond her.
她知道自己与显赫的政治地位无缘。
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3. It's still extremely difficult to get tenure.
要取得终身职位仍然极其困难。
- tenure (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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