term
noun
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
will term
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future tenseof term.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Hertzberg, the former unanimous Speaker of the Assembly, will term out of the Senate on Nov. 30.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
Rendon, whose six years as speaker marked the longest tenure since the 1990s, will term out of office in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
You will select, instead of all this destructive array, a small box of wood, which you will term a ballot-box, and from what shall issue—what?
From Eighth Reader by James Baldwin
If the purity of modern patriotism will term Young a pensioner, it must at least be confessed he was a grateful one.
From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 by Samuel Johnson
As to Chicago, Illinois, in 1904, and in several States, what we will term the local or limited referendum, in the last four or five years.
From Popular Law-making by Frederic Jesup Stimson
