overtenured

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

over- +‎ tenured

Adjective[edit]

overtenured (comparative more overtenured, superlative most overtenured)

  1. Having too many employees who have tenure.
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
      In theory both he and Vendla were in line for tenure in Textual Artifacts, but in practice the department was already overtenured.