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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More than 400 members of the faculty, tenured and untenured, representing engineering, education, meteorology and many other disciplines, signed a letter that lamented the cancellation.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 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
“As young, untenured professors,” Ward says, “we felt the only way we could make a statement was through parody.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
Some faculty, while supportive of helping more students succeed, are worried that untenured and part-time professors in particular could be pushed by their departments to raise grades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
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 Eric S. Raymond
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