tenure

 tenure 

Tenure has a few meanings depending on context.

1. Time someone has held a job or position
→ ရာထူးတစ်ခု / အလုပ်တစ်ခုတွင် တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့သည့် ကာလ

• During his tenure as president, the economy improved.
  → သူ သမ္မတအဖြစ် တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့တဲ့ကာလအတွင်း စီးပွားရေး တိုးတက်လာခဲ့တယ်။
• She accomplished a lot during her tenure as manager.
• His tenure at the company lasted ten years.

2. Academic tenure — a permanent/protected position given to a professor after meeting certain requirements.
→ တက္ကသိုလ်ဆရာ/ပါမောက္ခအတွက် အလုပ်အကိုင်တည်မြဲခွင့်

• She received tenure after six years at the university.

Easy way to remember

Tenure = the period of time someone holds a position

A common phrase is “during his/her tenure” = သူ/သူမ တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်နေစဉ်ကာလအတွင်း. 

During her tenure, Clarke led the prosecution of six white former Mississippi sheriff’s officers who beat and tortured two Black men in 2023 after a warrantless raid.