Learn How to Pronounce TENURE – TENURE in a Sentence

Learn how to pronounce TENURE correctly by understanding the syllables. Then see an illustrated sentence example.

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TENURE – it’s a noun with 2 syllables.

Stress the 1st syllable. It is pronounced:
TEN◦ure

Note, there is a slight difference between American English and British English. In American English they tend to say TEN-yer, whereas the British elongate the vowel – TEN-ure

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TENURE
Definition: 1) the time during which an office or position is held
2) the right to hold property: land tenure

The clipart shows a person holding the office of CEO in a company.

In the picture we see an official photograph of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States.

The sentence example reads: Jimmy Carter’s tenure as President of the United States, lasted 4 years, from 1977 to 1981.

Now you know how to say TENURE, look for an opportunity to use the word in conversation to imprint it on the memory.

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Examples of TENURE from news items:

Repeatedly during his tenure, Cherrington had raised the need for his office to have greater autonomy and law enforcement authority, including the right to carry firearms to aid in criminal investigations.
Source: Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/03/08/metro-geoffrey-cherrington-inspector-general/

A procession of top state politicians, including three governors, has been charged during his tenure, but politicians long believed the savvy Madigan would never be among them.
Source: Seattle Times
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/illinois-ex-house-speaker-charged-with-racketeering/

He fled during the unrest in the late 1970s ahead of the invasion of the Soviet Union; again in the late 1990s during the Taliban’s previous tenure; and is now considering fleeing once more.
Source: Scientific American
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02353-5

The Center on Privacy and Technology was particularly critical of facial recognition during his tenure, producing several surveys of the technology’s expanding scope and potential for racial bias.
Source: The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/13/22671880/biden-alvaro-bedoya-privacy-ftc-commissioner-facial-recognition

During her initial tenure with the institution, she said, she had worked to ensure that its film program both served local audiences and became part of a “larger national conversation.”
Source: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/arts/bam-president-gina-duncan.html

If you are interested in how to pronounce TENURE, be sure to check other words in The Punctuation Guide such as:
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