{
    "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."
}