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overtenured

overtenured adjective: having too many employees who have tenure.

Adjective

overtenured (comparative more overtenured, superlative most overtenured)

  1. Having too many employees who have tenure.
    • In theory both he and Vendla were in line for tenure in Textual Artifacts, but in practice the department was already overtenured.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Forms of overtenured

comparativemore overtenured
superlativemost overtenured

Origin of overtenured

From over- + tenured.

Questions about overtenured

What does overtenured mean?
Overtenured means having too many employees who have tenure.
What part of speech is overtenured?
Overtenured is an adjective.

Words near overtenured in the dictionary

  1. overtensing
  2. overtension
  3. overtensioned
  4. overtensioning
  5. overtensions
  6. overtenured
  7. overtest
  8. overtested
  9. overtesting
  10. overtests
  11. overtheatrical

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