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tenure-track

tenure-track adjective: possessing contractually guaranteed terms of employment specifying that, after a period of time, the employed person will be considered for tenure status, which typically confers enhanced job security and sometimes other benefits.

Adjective

tenure-track (not comparable)

  1. Possessing contractually guaranteed terms of employment specifying that, after a period of time, the employed person will be considered for tenure status, which typically confers enhanced job security and sometimes other benefits.
    • [T]he hierarchical structure of Japanese academic-research teams often denies women precious tenure-track positions.2005 March 21, Hanna Kite, “Japan Lags Behind”, in Time
    • It would be better to forget RAE exercises and instead have a large number of independent universities with proper tenure-track positions and with high standards enforced.2009 January 22, Andrew Oswald, “Competition is the key to the best research”, in The Independent, UK

Questions about tenure-track

What does tenure-track mean?
Tenure-track means possessing contractually guaranteed terms of employment specifying that, after a period of time, the employed person will be considered for tenure status, which typically confers enhanced job security and sometimes other benefits.
What part of speech is tenure-track?
Tenure-track is an adjective.

Words near tenure-track in the dictionary

  1. tenuously
  2. tenuousness
  3. tenurable
  4. tenure
  5. tenure track
  6. tenure-track
  7. tenured
  8. tenureless
  9. tenurelessness
  10. tenures
  11. tenureship

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