Definition of tenured
: having tenure
- tenured faculty members
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Recent Examples of tenured from the Web
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That team is run by Kang-Xing Jin, known internally as KX, and one of Facebook’s longest-tenured product executives.
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With 33 years in office, Courtney is the longest-serving current lawmaker and most-tenured Senate president.
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Deone Bucannon, who is somehow the second longest-tenured Cardinal defender at 25 years old, is about to get a role change.
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Some leave riverwalk Chef Didier Durand, one of the Riverwalk’s longest-tenured proprietors, will not return this summer.
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University officials have since taken steps to revoke his tenured position as a faculty member.
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Her contract allows her to assume a tenured position in the College of Education after leaving the presidency.
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Facing a fierce backlash on social media, including calls for her termination, Jarrar bragged about her $100,000 salary as a tenured professor.
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At a news conference, university provost Lynnette Zelezny explained that a tenured professor can be fired.
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First Known Use of tenured
1965
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