Definition of "tenured" []

• Having tenure: tenured civil servants; tenured faculty. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Being tenured is irrelevant; federal law prevails over your contract rights."
• "While some law schools have chosen to engage their library directors in tenured positions, there is no reasonable connection between the quality of the law library and the terms and conditions of employment of the director."
• "Those members of the endangered species known as tenured professors and a select number of adjuncts or wage slaves, the ones who are doing what they think is right, regardless of current trends, let me say this: Good for you."