tenures
- 1Plural of tenure.
The committee compared the tenures of several past directors.
Medieval land tenures varied widely from one region to another.
Note
The plural belongs to the countable uses of tenure: several terms in office set side by side, or the different rights by which feudal land was held. The academic status usually stays singular and uncountable (a professor is granted tenure), so tenures there means the posts of several people. The same spelling is also a verb form: a university that tenures a lecturer is granting that permanent position.
tenures is a form of tenure
tenure, noun: The period of time during which something, such as a position or piece of property, is held or possessed. Full entry
- Forms
- tenuretenures plural
- Spelling
- tenure → tenures: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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