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tenure

/ˈtenjə/

B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Law noun

The term or conditions under which an office is held.

The governance code recommends that a director's tenure should not exceed nine years.

Similar: term

Topic: Company & governance in Legal English

Business noun

The length of time a person has held a post, or a guaranteed permanence in it.

Average tenure on the support desk is under a year, which is why nothing sticks.

Similar: length of service

Topic: People & management in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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