Meadow not quite prepared for tenure (5)
I believe the answer is:
lease
'tenure' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'meadow not quite prepared' is the wordplay.
'meadow' becomes 'lea' (I've seen this before).
'not quite' means to remove the last letter.
'prepared' becomes 'set' (I've seen this before).
'set' with its final letter taken away is 'se'.
'lea'+'se'='LEASE'
'for' is the link.
(Other definitions for lease that I've seen before include "Let; rent" , "Contract to rent" , "Let out, hire" , "Contract for, say, use of building" , "Contract of tenure" .)