tenure

Lack of security of tenure was a reason for many families becoming homeless.

居住权缺乏安全保障是许多家庭无家可归的一个原因。

It's still extremely difficult to get tenure.

要取得终身职位仍然极其困难。

Within academic departments, tenure, combined with age-discrimination laws, makes faculty turnover—critical for a university to remain current in changing times—difficult.

在学术部门中，终身教职加上年龄歧视法，使得教职人员流动变得至关重要，大学要想在变化的时代保持与时俱进是很困难的。

What's worse, many officials have short tenures in office.

更糟糕的是，大多数官员的任期相当短。

She knew that tenure of high political office was beyond her.

她知道自己与显赫的政治职位无缘。

I was tenured when I published an article in a famous journal.

当我在著名期刊上发表文章时，我获得了终身职位。