Definition of "untenured" []

• Lacking tenure (permanence at an academic job). (adjective)

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• "A probationary teacher - that is to say untenured - he was one of several teachers let go as part of School District 9-R's necessary budget cuts."
• "Starting with the simply weird, consider the notion that: "The system also hamstrings younger untenured professors, making them fearful of taking intellectual risks and causing them to write in jargon aimed only at those in their narrow subdiscipline: Thus in economics, people have" utility functions "instead of needs and wants.""
• "The system also hamstrings younger untenured professors, making them fearful of taking intellectual risks and causing them to write in jargon aimed only at those in their narrow subdiscipline: Thus in economics, people have "utility functions" instead of needs and wants."