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  2. Academic tenure - Wikipedia

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    Tenure is a type of academic appointment that protects its holder from being fired or laid off except for cause, or under extraordinary circumstances such as ...

  3. Academic tenure in North America - Wikipedia

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    Under the tenure systems adopted by many universities and colleges in the United States and Canada, some faculty positions have tenure and some do not. Typical systems (such as the widely adopted "1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure" of the American Association of University Professors [5]) allow only a limited period to establish a record of published research, ability ...

  4. Land tenure - Wikipedia

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    The doctrine of tenure did not apply to personalty (personal property). However, the relationship of bailment in the case of chattels closely resembles the landlord-tenant relationship that can be created in land. Secure land-tenure also recognizes one's legal residential status in urban areas and it is a key characteristic in slums. Slum ...

  5. Tenure (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Tenure may refer to: Academic tenure, indefinite academic position; Housing tenure, arrangement for the right to live in a house or apartment;

  6. Security of tenure - Wikipedia

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    Security of tenure is a term with multiple meanings according to jurisdiction. In Australia , it is used in political science to describe a constitutional or legal guarantee that a political office-holder cannot be removed from office except in exceptional and specified circumstances.

  7. Thesaurus (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus is composed by at least three elements: 1-a list of words (or terms), 2-the relationship amongst the words (or terms), indicated by their hierarchical relative position (e.g. parent/broader term; child/narrower term, synonym, etc.), 3-a set of rules on how to use the thesaurus.

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .

  9. Burgage - Wikipedia

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    Burgage is a medieval land term used in Great Britain and Ireland, well established by the 13th century. A burgage was a town (" borough " or " burgh ") rental property (to use modern terms), owned by a king or lord.