Synonyms for term
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1. term

   Term in its figurative uses always retains something of its literal sense of a boundary or limit. The articles of a contract or other instrument are simply the portions into which it is divided for convenience; the terms are the essential statements on which its validity depends — as it were, the landmarks of its meaning or power; a condition is a contingent term which may become fixed upon the happening of some contemplated event. In logic a term is one of the essential members of a proposition, the boundary of statement in some one direction. Thus, in general use term is more restricted than word, expression, or phrase; a term is a word that limits meaning to a fixed point of statement or to a special class of subjects, as when we speak of the definition of terms, that is of the key-words in any discussion; or we say, that is a legal or scientific term. Compare BOUNDARY; DICTION.

   Synonyms:
   article, condition, denomination, expression, member, name, phrase, word

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1. termnoun

   Synonyms:
   limit, boundary, condition, time, season, period, expression, designation, word, name, article, proviso, stipulation

2. termverb

   Synonyms:
   denominate, name, call, style, characterize, designate, entitle

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. termnoun

   a word or expression used for some particular thing

   "he learned many medical terms"

   Synonyms:
   terminus, terminal figure, condition, full term

2. termnoun

   a limited period of time

   "a prison term"; "he left school before the end of term"

   Synonyms:
   terminus, terminal figure, condition, full term

3. condition, termnoun

   (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement

   "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous"

   Synonyms:
   experimental condition, terminus, stipulation, terminal figure, shape, status, full term, precondition, circumstance, consideration, condition

4. termnoun

   any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial

   "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree"

   Synonyms:
   terminus, terminal figure, condition, full term

5. termnoun

   one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition

   "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice"

   Synonyms:
   terminus, terminal figure, condition, full term

6. term, full termnoun

   the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent

   "a healthy baby born at full term"

   Synonyms:
   terminus, terminal figure, condition, full term

7. terminus, terminal figure, termverb

   (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome

   Synonyms:
   condition, terminus, terminal figure, termination, endpoint, end point, full term, depot, destination, terminal

8. termverb

   name formally or designate with a term

Matched Categories

1. • Constituent
   • Name
   • Point In Time
   • Quantity
   • Statement
   • Time Period
   • Word

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. termnoun

   Synonyms:
   limit, boundary, bound, confine, bourn, mete, terminus

2. termnoun

   Synonyms:
   time, season, spell, space of time, period of time

3. termnoun

   Synonyms:
   word (considered as having a definite meaning; particularly a technical word), expression, name, denomination

4. termnoun

   Synonyms:
   member (of a syllogism, of an equation, of a fraction, of a proportion, &c.)

5. termverb

   Synonyms:
   designate, denominate, name, style, entitle, call, phrase, dub, christen

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1. List of paraphrases for "term":

   mandate, expression, word, period, duration, deadline, run, end, phrase, terme, concept, fixed-term, time-limit, length, time, penalty, timeframe, imply, words, terms, horizon, completion, warrant, conclusion, legislature, notion, tenure, terminology, adjective, sentence, timescale, speech

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1. Paul Triolo:

   United States and China are in a long term struggle for dominating the technologies of the future, and part of that narrative is that China is using technologies such as AI in the service of government surveillance and in ways that go against Western values in terms of things like privacy.

2. Adam Scaife:

   It’s the same machinery that is used for predicting weather and long-term climate change

3. Vice President Yemi Osibanjo:

   We want an open foreign exchange market. But that market must be one that has the resources to make it robust and open, so, long term, we expect that the Central Bank will ease restrictions as we go along.

4. Fred Ruffy:

   Since most of the open interest is in the May term, it is probably related to the drug study results later this month.

5. John Williams:

   You have to look through the short-term fluctuations of things, look to the next year or two ahead and think about where is the economy going to be, monetary policy as we know takes a year or two to have its full effects.