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term, short-
term, medium-
term, or long-
term in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Term may
refer to: Terminology, context-specific
nouns or compound...
- 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...
- The
term of a
patent is the
maximum time
during which it can be
maintained in force. It is
usually expressed in a
number of
years either starting from...
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difficult for
development to take place, and is
inherently capitalistic. He
termed it "bourgeois liberalization". Thus, some
socialists accuse the economic...
-
Florida cracker and
Georgia cracker). The
exact history and
origin of the
term is debated.
According to one theory, it is an
agent noun
derived from the...
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general elections that are held near the
midpoint of a president's four-year
term of office, on
Election Day on the
Tuesday after the
first Monday in November...
- had
terms of
office for the
lower house of the
state legislature (often
termed the
state House of Representatives) at two years. Five (Alabama, Louisiana...
- 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...
-
information retrieval, an
index term (also
known as
subject term,
subject heading, descriptor, or keyword) is a
term that
captures the
essence of the...
- premises. Its
etymology is unknown, but the
term seems to have been
coined in the 1920s or 1930s. The
term has been more
generally used to mean getting...
