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English
Etymology
From mid- + term.
Pronunciation
Adjective
midterm (not comparable)
- Halfway through a term, or roughly so.
The administration is suffering from the usual midterm drop in approval ratings.
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halfway through a term
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 期中 (zh) (qīzhōng), 中期 (zh) (zhōngqī)
- Czech: napůl cesty, v polovině
- Finnish: puoliväli (fi)
- French: (politics) mi-mandat (fr), (Quebec, education) mi-session
- German: Mitte (de) der Amtszeit (politics), Mitte (de) der Laufzeit, Mitte (de) des Semesters
- Hungarian: (politics) félidős (hu), (education) évközi (hu), félévi (hu), év közbeni
- Japanese: 中間 (ja) (ちゅうかん, chūkan)
- Korean: 중간 (ko) (junggan)
- Russian: среднесро́чный (ru) (srednesróčnyj)
- Turkish: dönem ortası, orta vade (politics), sömestr ortası
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Noun
midterm (plural midterms)
- A midterm school exam (i.e., halfway through the term).
I only got a C on the midterm, so I really have to study for the final.
- A midterm election.
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