The Clue
___ limit (4 letter answer)
The Answer
TERM
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Notes
The answer TERM is seen frequently, appearing about once every 120 puzzles.
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Duration
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Life, for one
Name
Period
Semester
Stretch
Tenure
Call
Candlemas or Michaelmas
Choate session
Contract stipulation
Duration of office
Kind of insurance
Kind of paper
Length of sentence
Office time
Presidential run
Prison sentence
Relative of a semester
School period
School session
Semester, e.g.
Semester's relative
Time in office
Time period
Time in a seat
Time served
Type of paper
Five to ten, e.g.
Four years, for a President
Six years in the Senate
Six years, for a senator
Two years in the House
Six years, for a U.S. senator
Van Buren had but one
Definition
TERM as a noun:
1. a word or expression used for some particular thing; "he learned many medical terms"
2. a limited period of time; "a prison term"; "he left school before the end of term"
3. (condition, term) = (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"
4. any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial; "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree"
5. one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition; "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice"
6. (term, full term) = the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent; "a healthy baby born at full term"
7. (terminus, terminal figure, term) = (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
TERM as a verb:
1. name formally or designate with a term