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Editorial note

Given China's rise, its wise long-term to keep a presence in the region.

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Quick take

a word or expression used for some particular thing; "he learned many medical terms"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a word or expression used for some particular thing; "he learned many medical terms"

noun

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

noun

(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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for term.

noun

a word or expression used for some particular thing; "he learned many medical terms"

noun

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

noun

(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"

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any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial; "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree"

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one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition; "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice"

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the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent; "a healthy baby born at full term"

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(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

verb

name formally or designate with a term

Example sentences

Given China's rise, its wise long-term to keep a presence in the region.

Doing that is simply robbing your long-term platform value for short-term successes.

"This is excellently picked out: most of the disagreements over the term "sexism" hinge around this point.

So now every single request to your site has to do a substring match against every single term in this list.

Having a blood glucose this high on a long term basis will have long term effects that are what kill most diabetics in the long run.

You can find out more during our first Skype chat!Will you fund everyone and every thing?No. I'll still need to like your idea, and feel that a positive long-term return is possible.

But at the very least you're already cynical about those things and demand to get paid well enough in risk-adjusted terms.

Considering the costs of pushing you out, you'd have to be doing a hell of a lot more than just writing shit code to justify termination.

I like to be reassured that a company will, in the long term, fail when its products are cynically designed to manipulate.

The faster you get things done, and the more thorough and error-free they are, the more ideas you can execute on, which means you will learn faster in the future too. Over the long term, programming skill is like compound interest.

Many will disagree, but I believe that in the long term society will evolve to match this more egalitarian structure.

A dear friend and excellent negotiator told me that when he gets any kind of short-term exploding offer, the first thing he does is verbally reject the deadline.

Despite having insurance, there continue to be ongoing costs and once I go on long-term disability I'll be paying cobra rates to keep the same coverage.

I'm the author of this app, and we're building a crowd-sourced network of live-updating Android barometers in hopes that we can improve short-term weather prediction.

" Obviously some sort of FeedBurner bot, but it doesn't have "bot" or "crawler" or "spider" or any other term in there.- How about we just make a "blacklist" of these known bots, look up every user agent, and compare against the blacklist?

If you're writing throwaway code for a client with loose constraints and a tight deadline you'll write code differently then you would when you expect to maintain a long term relationship with a client who expects a high degree of correctness.