mid-term

A form of midterm — Halfway through a term, or roughly so.

Meanings

adjectivemid-term (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of midterm.
    1 more example

    One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.

    1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
nounmid-term (plural mid-terms)

plural mid-terms

  1. alternativeAlternative form of midterm.
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