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An example use of tenure in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… career but in his tenure as marshal …”
Tenure is the right to hold a position for a specified period of time without being dismissed by the employer.
the word tenure occurs in english on average 6.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that tenure can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;