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terms

/ tɜːmz /

plural noun

  1. usually specified prenominally the actual language or mode of presentation used

    he described the project in loose terms

  2. conditions of an agreement

    you work here on our terms

  3. a sum of money paid for a service or credit; charges
  4. usually preceded by on mutual relationship or standing

    they are on affectionate terms

  5. in terms of
    as expressed by; regarding

    in terms of money he was no better off

  6. come to terms
    to reach acceptance or agreement

    to come to terms with one's failings

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Lacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication.

I was a journalist in New York City for the last of his three gubernatorial terms, a little more.

Yet to hear one of the victims so publicly rejecting the kinds of terms used in the past was inspiring.

Maybe I have come more to terms with, somewhere over the years, that people will think whatever they think.

The Newsroom aired its final episode on Sunday, already an eternity ago in news-cycle terms.

Results are in terms of bulk of precipitate, which must not be confused with percentage by weight.

Modification in its terms growing in part out of these new conditions will subsequently be required from time to time.

The society newspapers for the week alluded to the matter in veiled, but unmistakable terms.

Of the extent of this increased power of production we can only speak in general terms.

It happened that I didn't stay around those police posts long enough to get familiar with the technical terms for everything.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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