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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
term paper
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Five years from now you are not going to be able to remember the book you read for a term paper.
▪ In an unpublished term paper, a high-school wrestler describes one such experience: Late in that last period something strange happened.
▪ Remember, this is not just another term paper.
▪ Robert sat nearby doing a term paper on the history of air power.
▪ Usually the sins confessed were minor in nature: a broken promise, a plagiarized term paper.
▪ With demand for short and medium term paper picking up, most issues registered gains of up to £3/4.
Wiktionary
term paper

n. A substantial research paper written by a student over an academic term or semester which accounts for a large amount of a grade and makes up much of the course.

WordNet
term paper

n. a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term

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Term paper

A term paper is a research paper written by students over an academic term, accounting for a large part of a grade. Term papers are generally intended to describe an event, a concept, or argue a point. A term paper is a written original work discussing a topic in detail, usually several typed pages in length and is often due at the end of a semester.

Usage examples of "term paper".

I CAN TELL YOU THE WHOLE STORY, I CAN WRITE YOUR TERM PAPER-AND IF THERE'S AN EXAM, YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO BULLSHIT AS WELL AS YOU CAN: IF I TELL YOU THE WHOLE STORY, MAYBE YOU'LL ACTUALLY REMEMBER SOME OF IT.

He went back to discussing the term paper projects with his two mids.

Didn't you lend Clara an ebony last week, to help her with a term paper?

At Princeton, I did my first term paper on this shit, and got an F--'Off the subject,' the prof said.

Wendy glanced at the page, which described the parameters for an upcoming class term paper, eight to ten pages, three cited references, yadda-yadda-yadda.