Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overtenured

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: overtenured
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having too many employees who have tenure.

Example Sentences

"In theory both he and Vendla were in line for tenure in Textual Artifacts, but in practice the department was already overtenured."

Etymology

From over- + tenured.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over

Inflected Forms

more overtenured (comparative) most overtenured (superlative)

Questions

What does overtenured mean?: Having too many employees who have tenure.
Where does overtenured come from?: From over- + tenured.

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