Tenured

What do we mean by tenured?

Having tenure. adjective

Having tenure adjective

Simple past tense and past participle of tenure. verb

Appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime adjective

To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).

1. An affliction that disrupts economies of academic production that is most commonly observed amongst academics who have received tenure and give no fucks about 'outcomes', 'metrics' and basically getting any measurable shit done. Not to be confused with laziness or incompetence, or even aloofness; the causes are usually benevolent, but symptoms manifest towards early career researchers that have never known the luxury of free thought. Secondary symptoms can include, 1a. The affliction contributes to bizarre and sometimes non-sensical claims from research data that may, or may not exist, but have to be argued against anyways. 1b. The affliction may create relations where tenured academics end up peer-reviewing their own work through various boards, committees and editorial guidance to ensure their old ideas continue to circulate and are counted towards publication schemes, even if they're not sure what this means. Urban Dictionary

Something college professors get when they are offered a life-time position at a college. Urban Dictionary

An acronym that stand for: Totally Exempt from Needing to Use Real Effort Urban Dictionary

A teacher's dream that allows them to screw around his/or students and not have to teach. Urban Dictionary

A Godless action taken by colleges and universities across America to keep their teachers and professors from leaving their institutions to work elsewhere by guaranteeing their "right to work" for life at the college and/or university of their chosen employment. the reason this is "Godless" is it allows the teachers and professors to teach their own perverted agendas which therefore brainwashes our youth to believe personal lies over generally accepted unalienable truths, that made America great in the first place. Urban Dictionary

Noun, After having a friendship that has lasted for a long time the friends have a sort of tenure that allows them to say and do things that other people would not be able to, and also exempts them from most consequences. Urban Dictionary

A neurological condition found in academic professors with tenure. The lack of intellectual challenge, combined with ~100% job security after receiving tenure, causes their mental faculties to dwindle to the point where they become mentally challenged. Urban Dictionary

When a higher status, entitled, "tenured" professor gets angry at, shouts at, or "rages" against those lower in status then him (usually its done by males). Often directed at untenured faculty, secretaries & admin, or PhD students over minor issues or perceived slights to their high status. Urban Dictionary

The difference in the overall personalities and classroom behavior between teachers (specifically high school teachers) who have received tenure, and those who have not. For example, a teacher without tenure may be overly cautious in class in order to avoid offending anybody in the slightest, whereas a tenured teacher simply couldn't give a shit. Urban Dictionary

A university professor who has reached tenure, but loves giving anyone and everyone a hard time no matter what. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to tenured:
tenured, tenure, enured, tenures.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word tenured:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe tenured:
non.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective tenured:
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Words that sound like tenured:
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