to term
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3.9
- verb
- /tɜrm/
- Formal
- And for this reason, Sarah Ahmed coins the term strategic inefficiency.
- often termed
- appropriately termed
- termed a condition
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Watch on YouTubeAnd that creates what I once termed government by Groupon.
- And that creates what I once termed government by Groupon.
- And the first of these is what we could term the NVIDIA effect.
- Belief in what was termed the book Man.
Examples
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And that creates what I once termed government by Groupon.
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What we term a victim of circumstance.
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The first is what I term your superpower.
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Or as he termed it, "constructive ambiguity".
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Kevin says astrobiology used to be termed exobiology.
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Meanwhile, in Rome today, the Pope issued a message of hope for believers in their fight against what he termed the godless and lost.
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In addition, at least two states have statutes that encourage what they term as "benevolent gestures."
Academic text (1999) -
But David was considered a revolutionary within the contemporary art world, pioneering a style of painting he termed "Climax."
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The result is that Derrida produces what he terms at one point a "phantom narrative" (211).
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In her speech, she termed the project a groundbreaking initiative for sustainable energy.
Synonyms
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1.0
To give a name to someone or something and sometimes to say they are a certain kind
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1.0
To give a word people use to identify someone or something
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2.2
To describe someone with a single word or short term
164
1.3
To give a name to a book, film, or work of art
93
4.4
To give a name, often an official title, to someone or something
18
5.9
To call a person or thing by a particular name
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7.7
To give a name to a person or thing
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
15
4.4
To continue a pregnancy until the baby is fully developed and ready to be born
Compounds
- Specialized
7
4.2
Insurance that pays money if you die during a set time, with fixed payments and no savings
- Slang
4
9.5
An informal word or phrase used in speech by a certain group, not in formal language
- Specialized
1
9.9
A word or phrase that appears in both statements but not in the conclusion
- Formal
A fixed rental period that ends early if a specific event happens, for example when the landlord dies
How Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word term used as a verb comes from the noun term 'a fixed name', so to term something is to give it a name or label. That's why writers say something is 'termed' X when they give it a specific name.