term out
English
Pronunciation
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -aʊt
Verb
term out (third-person singular simple present terms out, present participle terming out, simple past and past participle termed out)
- (idiomatic, ambitransitive, of an elected official, lease, etc.) To finish the term.
- 2006, California Environmental Law Reporter, Volume 2006[1]:
- With little time to master complex policy matters before terming out, legislators have distanced themselves from more challenging policy issues, deferring them to the initiative process.
- 2010, Stephen B. Meister, Commercial Real Estate Restructuring Revolution: Strategies, Tranche Warfare ...[2]:
- In order to apply eroding market fundamentals to our hypothetical office building we need to make a few assumptions — the historic or fric- tional vacancy rate (departing the bull market), the amount of space under lease that termed out since
- 2011, Justin Buchler, Hiring and Firing Public Officials: Rethinking the Purpose of Elections[3]:
- Voters cannot punish corrupt officials who are termed out of office.
- 2025 May 20, Richard Luscombe, “Ron DeSantis’s fall from grace: ‘He’s completely crashed to the ground’”, in The Guardian[4], →ISSN:
- The governor, meanwhile, hit back at what he sees as a “pathetic” agenda being pursued by the majority. He has also lashed out at their investigation of a charity scandal enveloping his wife, Casey DeSantis, as she mulls whether to run in next year’s election to succeed him when he is termed out of office in January 2027.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see term, out.
Noun
- (idiomatic) The transfer of debt within a company's balance sheet without acquiring new debt often through the capitalization of short-term to long-term debt.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see term, out.