Collocations for "terms"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "terms" in context.
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term
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [short, long, half, full] term [in office, as president]
- a [four] -year term (in office)
- his [first, second, final] term
- the [fall, winter, spring] term
- a [bad, good, successful, horrible] term
- UK: [study, go away] at half term
- UK: the [start, beginning, end] of term
- will [work, help] in the [short, long] term
- what are your terms (and conditions)?
- please see [above, below, overleaf] for terms (and conditions)
- the terms of the [sale, deal, transfer, agreement, contract]
- the terms and conditions (of the agreement)
- a [medical, technical, scientific] term (for)
- a [polite, formal, derogatory, slang, colloquial] term
- [fixed, variable, standard] terms
- [define, clarify, explain] a term
- [told them, stated] in no uncertain terms
- is on good terms with [everyone, the in-laws, her ex]
- came to terms with the [loss, rejection, disability]
- they (finally) came to terms (with)
- [need, have] to hand in my term paper
- UK: [in, during] the half-term holiday
- UK: [in] term time
- UK: a term-time job
- termed the [theory, discovery, invention]
- it was termed a [failure, success]
- the [problem, illness, advancement, disaster] was (not) termed serious
- termed by [most, many, some]
'terms' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
abstract
- accept
- acceptable
- acceptance
- adjacent
- agree
- agreeable
- agreed
- agreement
- bail
- barter
- breach
- buyer
- certain
- challenging
- compete
- complicated
- concrete
- condition
- contract
- convenient
- daunting
- detrimental
- different
- difficult
- easy
- elegant
- embody
- employment
- enforce
- explanation
- express
- extension
- familiar
- firstly
- formal
- frame
- franchise
- freight
- fruitful
- general
- intimate
- invoice
- irrelevant
- issuance
- judge
- lay
- legal
- limited
- little