Tenure
The crossword clue "Tenure" is answered by TERM, a 4-letter entry. Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TERM
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TERM answer page.
Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for TERM
Every other clue in this collection answered by TERM, most used first.
- Time in office - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
- Semester - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
- School session - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Duration - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Expression - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Glossary entry - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Six years, for a senator - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Period in office - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- School period - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- School semester - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Period - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- Six years, for a U.S. senator - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Academic period - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Semester, e.g. - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Tenure of office - used 16 times, most recently in 2005
- Six years in the Senate - used 13 times, most recently in 2018
- Word - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Semester or quarter - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- School year division - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- ___ paper (school composition) - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Service period - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- College period - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Four years, for a president - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Quarter or semester - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- What to call it - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Contract period - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- In-office time - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of paper - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- __ paper - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Prison sentence - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Two years in the House - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Glossary item - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Kind of life insurance - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Presidential run - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Stretch in office - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Time period - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Word or phrase. - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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