Term
//tɜːm//
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The word "term" can be used as noun, verb and adjective.
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Easter term Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term Hilary term INCO term J-term January term Lent term Long Vac term Long Vacation term Michaelmas term Paschal term Trinity term absolute term abstract term at term authorised term authorized term boundary term come to terms common term concrete term coordinate term cosmological term cross term decreasing term assurance defined term fixed-term fixed-term contract full term generic term half term half-term in the long term in the short term increasing term assurance index term inkhorn term keep term lambda term late-term level term assurance loan term long term long term evolution long-term long-term memory long-term potentiation major term medium-term mid-term mid-term break middle term midterm minor term near term near-term on long-term sick protected term representation term rule of the shorter term search term short term short-term short-term memory skunked term solar term technical term term assurance term day term deposit term investment term limit term loan term logic term of address term of art term of endearment term of notice term of venery term of years term of years absolute term of years determinable term out term paper term phrase term sheet term time term-limit term-trotter terms and conditions time term trade term unauthorised term unauthorized term
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Americanism Anglicism Arabism Frenchism Gallicism Germanism Grecism Hebraism Hispanism Italianism Polonism Russianism Slavism anthroponym antonym blanket term collective term colloquialism contranym dysphemism eponym ergonym eulogism euphemism expletive holonym honorific meronym name pejorative phrase pragmonym quarter retronym semester synonym toponym trimester troponym umbrella term vulgarism word
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academic year binding born condition constant contract deliver duration employment essay essay paper essential dignity expression force idiom legal length lexeme limit limitation line listeme maintain maximum natal chart paper part patent period phrase pillar point predicate promise proposition quadrangular regulation relation restriction rulerships school school length school paper school semester school session school time semester session sign specialise subject superficies syllogism table taffrail terminal terminate time time limit unequal value variable word year
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