term
/tɜɹm/ noun B1- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a contract or agreement. · Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.· Alright, look...we can spend the holidays with your parents, but this time it will be on my terms.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made. · The latest models are available now, on the lowest terms you'll find anywhere, guaranteed.
- A limited or defined timespan. · He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison.· The term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length. · The president is almost half way through his term.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year. · At our school, sports day was always held at the end of the summer term.
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Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence.
Terms agreed to.
“Well, we’re bound to take you on your own terms,” said the inspector; “but when it comes to telling us to abandon the case—why in the name of goodness should we abandon the case?”
So desirable in every way were the apartments, and so moderate did the terms seem when divided between us, that the bargain was concluded upon the spot, and we at once entered into possession.
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