noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brief
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During his brief five-month tenure Schlesinger chopped more than two thousand employees from the payroll.
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After 11 months at Hilton, Bollenbach has had a similar kind of brief , high-impact tenure .
long
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It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press.
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At the end of March 1921 Baldwin's long tenure of the Financial Secretaryship came to an end.
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More important, the younger Pitt, during his long tenure of office, laid the foundations of the nineteenth-century Tory party.
■ NOUN
housing
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They suggest therefore that greater emphasis be given to housing tenure in evaluating relative deprivation.
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It is clear that housing tenure is associated with major differentials in patterns of marriage and childbearing.
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As expected, the association between social class and housing tenure is very strong.
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What is more surprising is that differentials by housing tenure are even more substantial.
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This strongly suggests that housing tenure is associated with more substantial and fundamental aspects than simply housing matters.
land
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Jackson and Robinson found local cultural reinforcement by the sub-group in hostels. 2 Structural problems of land tenure and credit finance.
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Forms of land tenure varied widely from one region to another in Piedmont.
status
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The court ruled that the teacher could be transferred despite her tenure status .
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First, a statute may require that the school board take affirmative action to elect a teacher to tenure status .
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A teacher can also lose tenure status by accepting a teaching position in another school district.
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However, she was not automatically entitled to tenure status .
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The court concluded that it would be inconsistent with these purposes for it to confer tenure status on a teacher.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If a professor doesn't get tenure after ten years, he probably never will.
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Under Richardson's tenure as commander, the Navy grew dramatically.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At a local scale, table 5.5 shows differences in tenure within Devon, an example of a predominantly rural county.
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No successor could hope for such an earth-moving tenure as that.
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The situation for teachers without tenure varies according to the circumstances surrounding the dismissal.
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The system of reversion could also be used, as we have seen, to establish something near to defacto hereditary tenure .
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They suggest therefore that greater emphasis be given to housing tenure in evaluating relative deprivation.
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When I got tenure at Hopkins, I was a promising researcher.