TERMS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does terms mean? 

• TERMS (noun)
  The noun TERMS has 2 senses:

1. status with respect to the relations between people or groups

2. the amount of money needed to purchase something

  Familiarity information: TERMS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERMS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Status with respect to the relations between people or groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

footing; terms

Context example:

on a friendly footing

Hypernyms ("terms" is a kind of...):

position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The amount of money needed to purchase something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

damage; price; terms

Context example:

how much is the damage?

Hypernyms ("terms" is a kind of...):

cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "terms"):

asking price; selling price (the price at which something is offered for sale)

bid price ((stock market) the price at which a broker is willing to buy a certain security)

closing price ((stock market) the price of the last transaction completed during a day's trading session)

factory price (price charged for goods picked up at the factory)

highway robbery (an exorbitant price)

purchase price (the price at which something is actually purchased)

cash price; spot price (the current delivery price of a commodity traded in the spot market)

support level ((stock market) the price at which a certain security becomes attractive to investors)

valuation (assessed price)

 Context examples 

I proved it to you in such terms as, I should have thought, would have prevented your ever again alluding to the plan.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His terms are five guineas a day.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I will keep no terms with my enemies.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Terms at the highest level of the CDISC system organ class terminology.

(CDISC System Organ Class, NCI Thesaurus)

Are you quite sure that you understand the terms on which Mr. Martin and Harriet now are?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In the meantime, the squire and Captain Smollett were still on pretty distant terms with one another.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The terminology subset that includes terms relevant to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC ) Standard for Exchange of Non-clinical Data (SEND) group.

(CDISC SEND Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

The terminology that includes concepts relevant to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard for the Exchange of Non-clinical Data (SEND) standard disposition terms.

(CDISC SEND Standardized Disposition Term Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

We want to have a good look at our neighbors before we get on visitin' terms.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Be umble, and make terms, my dear!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)