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tenured
  1. Having tenure v

  2. (en-past of: tenure)

WordNet
tenured

adj. appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime; "an irremovable officer"; "a tenured professor"

Usage examples of "tenured".

When he pulled out a chair for Leonora he noticed Osmond Kern, silver-haired and vaguely regal-looking in the manner of the tenured aristocrats of the academic world, sitting at a nearby table.

Most tenured researchers like him treat their grad students and post-docs as so much unpaid labor, to be rewarded with co-author status on a paper along with the other twenty members of the team.