Look up term, short-term, medium-term, or long-term in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Term may refer to: Terminology, context-specific nouns or compound...

Georgia cracker). The exact history and etymology of the word is debated. The term is "probably an agent noun" from the word crack. The word crack was later...

The term has been more generally used to mean getting rid of someone or something. In the 1970s, its meaning expanded to refer to murder. The term eighty-six...

"Lolita" is an English-language term defining a young girl as "precociously seductive." It originates from Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita, which...

A term paper is a research paper written by students over an academic term, accounting for a large part of a grade. Merriam-Webster defines it as "a major...

A term of office, electoral term, or parliamentary term is the length of time a person serves in a particular elected office. In many jurisdictions there...

A term limit is a legal restriction on the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office. When term limits are found in presidential...

Michaelmas (/ˈmɪkəlməs/ MIK-əl-məs) term is the first academic term of the academic year in a number of English-speaking universities and schools in the...

A term of endearment is a word or phrase used to address or describe a person, animal or inanimate object for which the speaker feels love or affection...

A contractual term is "any provision forming part of a contract". Each term gives rise to a contractual obligation, the breach of which may give rise...