overtenured

English

Etymology

over- +‎ tenured

Adjective

overtenured (comparative more overtenured, superlative most overtenured)

1. Having too many employees who have tenure.
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

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