Synonyms of the word tenure


TENUREADVANCE - ELEVATE - INCUMBENCY - PROMOTE - RAISE - TERM - UPGRADE

tenure

  • n. A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
  • n. A period of time during which something is possessed.
  • n. A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
  • n. A right to hold land under the feudal system.
  • v. (transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).

advance

  • v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
  • v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
  • v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
  • v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
  • v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
  • v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
  • v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
  • v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
  • v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
  • v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
  • n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
  • n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
  • n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
  • n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
  • adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
  • adj. Preceding.
  • adj. Forward.

elevate

  • v. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
  • v. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
  • v. (transitive) To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
  • v. (transitive) To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
  • v. (transitive) To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
  • v. (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
  • adj. (obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft.

incumbency

  • n. The state of being incumbent.
  • n. An obligation or duty.
  • n. A tenure.
  • n. (figuratively) benefice, lucrative position or possession.

promote

  • v. (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
  • v. (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell…
  • v. (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
  • v. (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to the above league.
  • v. (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
  • v. (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
  • v. (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.

raise

  • v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
  • v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
  • v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
  • v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
  • v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
  • v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
  • n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
  • n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
  • n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
  • n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
  • n. A cairn or pile of stones.

term

  • n. Limitation, restriction or regulation.
  • n. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
  • n. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
  • n. (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
  • n. A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
  • n. Relations among people.
  • n. Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
  • n. Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
  • n. (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
  • n. (archaic) A menstrual period.
  • n. (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or…
  • n. (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism,…
  • n. (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships…
  • n. (architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or…
  • n. (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
  • v. To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
  • n. (computing, informal) terminal (computer program that emulates a physical terminal).
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To terminate one's employment.
  • n. One whose employment has been terminated.

upgrade

  • n. An upward grade or slope.
  • n. An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology.
  • n. An improvement.
  • v. (transitive) To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more…
  • v. (transitive) To replace with something better.
  • v. (transitive) To improve the equipment or furnishings of or services rendered to.
  • v. (intransitive) To improve in condition or status.
  • v. (intransitive, computing) To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher…
  • adv. Up a slope or grade.

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