noun
    
    plural -ures
    
    [count] :the amount of time that a person holds a job, office, or title
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    [noncount] :the right to keep a job (especially the job of being a professor at a college or university) for as long as you want to have it
    
    
    
    
    
    [noncount] law :the right to use property