tenure

mandat

Période pendant laquelle une personne occupe un emploi ou une fonction officielle.

En anglais simple : The period during which someone holds a job or official position.

• His tenure ended in June.
• During her tenure as director, sales doubled.
• The mayor’s second tenure in office was shorter than his first.

Comment l'utiliser : tenure as something (Her tenure as mayor lasted eight years.); during someone’s tenure (The company grew during his tenure.)

Synonymes : term, term of office

Expressions courantes : during someone’s tenure, tenure as something, tenure in office

titularisation

Droit d’un enseignant universitaire à conserver son poste de façon permanente, sauf dans des circonstances exceptionnelles.

En anglais simple : The right of a university teacher to keep their job permanently, except in unusual circumstances.

• She finally got tenure.
• The university awarded tenure to three professors.
• He applied for tenure after six years of teaching.

Synonymes : permanent appointment

Expressions courantes : get tenure, grant tenure, academic tenure

tenure féodale

Droit de détenir une terre dans un système où elle dépend d’un souverain ou d’un seigneur.

En anglais simple : The right to hold land under a system in which a ruler or lord controls it.

• The land was held by feudal tenure.
• Military service was a condition of his tenure.
• The document described the family’s tenure of the estate.

Expressions courantes : feudal tenure, land tenure, tenure of land

titulariser

Accorder à un enseignant universitaire le droit de conserver son poste de façon permanente.

En anglais simple : To give a university teacher the right to keep their job permanently.

• The university decided to tenure her.
• They tenured two professors last year.
• The department rarely tenures staff so early in their careers.

Expressions courantes : tenure a professor, tenure someone