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{
"term": "tenure",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the period of time when somebody holds an important job, especially a political one; the act of holding an important job",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "his four-year tenure as president"
},
{
"text": "She had a long tenure of office."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["life", "lifetime", "long"],
"verb + tenure": ["have", "begin", "end"],
"preposition": ["during somebody’s tenure"],
"phrases": ["a tenure of office"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the right to stay permanently in your job, especially as a teacher at a university",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's still extremely difficult to get tenure."
},
{
"text": "She has been granted tenure at Leeds University."
}
],
"topics": ["Education"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["academic", "faculty", "indefinite"],
"verb + tenure": ["have", "achieve", "get"],
"tenure + noun": ["track", "clock", "evaluation"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the legal right to live in a house or use a piece of land",
"examples": [
{
"text": "When you rent a house here, you don’t have security of tenure."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["secure", "housing", "land"],
"phrases": ["security of tenure"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtenjə(r)/",
"audio": "te/tenure/tenure__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtenjər/",
"audio": "te/tenure/tenure__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from tenir ‘to hold’, from Latin tenere."
}