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tenured is an adjective meaning "appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime". It carries one recorded sense.
appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime
“an irremovable officer”
“a tenured professor”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tenured come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.