untenured
Americanadjective
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unheld, as property or a position.
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lacking tenure, as a college instructor.
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not offering or leading to tenure, as some college teaching positions.
Etymology
Origin of untenured
Example Sentences
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Unaccredited, untenured university, I feel like these are my colleagues who joined start up companies here.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2023
Walker, who is an untenured professor, will remain on leave before officially stepping down at the end of the academic year in May.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2021
Cases in which a tenured faculty member, or even an untenured teacher, take wholly noxious stands don’t occur all that often, but they’re not unprecedented.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2020
The life of an untenured adjunct professor is especially grim.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2018
Students don't really get tenure, of course, the way professors do, but a tenth-year graduate student has probably been around the university longer than any untenured professor. :tera-: /te'r*/ /pref./
From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.
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