Definitions for midterm

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Spelling: [mid-turm]

IPA: /ˈmɪdˌtɜrm/

Midterm is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in midterm (deimmrt).

Definitions for midterm

noun

1. the middle or halfway point of a term, as a school term or term of office.
2. Often, midterms. Informal. an examination or series of examinations at the middle of a school term.

adjective

1. pertaining to or occurring on or about the middle of a term, as a school term or term of office:

Origin of midterm

First recorded in 1865-70; mid- + term

Examples for midterm

But that fear evaporated after the midterm elections, when Republicans won control of the Senate.

They have one big problem: Republican midterm gains had more to do with a sagging Democrat brand than an attractive GOP platform.

With the midterm elections safely in the rearview mirror, Obama is on legacy patrol.

The 2014 midterm elections are just months behind us, but already Flake feels the pressure of the 2016 presidential elections.

After the midterm elections, conservative pundits and radio hosts urged Congress not to work with Obama.

During a midterm election with a larger share of anxious, older, whiter voters, that was enough.

Why else would $4 billion have been spent on the midterm election?

Only in this sense did Republicans succeed in nationalizing the midterm, but it was enough.

But turnout tends to be far more variable in a midterm election and modeling become far difficult.

We are just coming off the midterm elections, too, where the Democrats got slaughtered.