Short Term Health Insurance

–adjective

1.	h 492 aving little length; not long.

2.	having little height; not tall: a short man.

3.	extending or reaching only a little way: a short path.

4.	brief in duration; not extensive in time: a short wait.

5.	brief or concise, as writing.

6.	rudely brief; abrupt; hurting: short behavior.

7.	low in amount; scanty: short rations.

8.	not reaching a point, mark, target, or the like; not long enough or far enough.

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9.	below the standard in extent, quantity, duration, etc.: short measure.

10.	having a scanty or insufficient amount of (often fol. by in or on): He was short in experience.

11.	being below a necessary or desired level; lacking: The office is short due to winter colds and flu.

12.

Cookery.

a.	(of pastry and the like) crisp and flaky; breaking or crumbling readily from being made with a large proportion of butter or other shortening.

b.	(of dough) containing a relatively large amount of shortening.

13.	(of metals) deficient in tenacity; friable; brittle.

14.	(of the head or skull) of less than ordinary length from front to back.

15.

Stock Exchange.

a.	not possessing at the time of sale commodities or stocks that one sells.

b.	noting or pertaining to a sale of commodities or stocks that the seller does not possess, depending for profit on a decline in prices.

16.

Phonetics.

a.	lasting a relatively short time: “Bit” has a shorter vowel-sound than “bid” or “bead.”

belonging to a class of sounds considered as usually shorter in duration than another class, as the vowel of but as compared to that of bought, and in many languages serving as a distinctive feature of phonemes, as the a in German Bann in contrast with the ah in Bahn, or the t in Italian fato in contrast with the tt in fatto (opposed to long ).

c.	having the sound of the English vowels in bat, bet, bit, hot, but, and put, historically descended from vowels that were short in duration.

17.

Prosody.

a.	(of a syllable in quantitative verse) lasting a relatively shorter time than a long syllable.

b.	unstressed.

18.	(of an alcoholic drink) small: a short drink.

19.	Chiefly British. (of whiskey) undiluted; straight.

20.	Ceramics. (of clay) not plastic enough to be modeled.

21.	Ropemaking. hard (def. 39).

–adverb

22.	abruptly or suddenly: to stop short.

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23.	briefly; curtly.

24.	on the near side of an intended or particular point: The arrow landed short.

25.

Baseball.

a.	with the hands higher on the handle of the bat than usual: He held the bat short and flied out.

b.	in a fielding position closer to home plate than usual.

–noun

26.	something that is short.

27.	that which is deficient or lacking.

28.	the sum and substance of a matter; gist (usually prec. by the).

29.

shorts,

a.	trousers, knee-length or shorter.

b.	short pants worn by men as an undergarment.

c.	knee breeches, formerly worn by men.

Finance. short-term bonds.

e.	Mining. crushed ore failing to pass through a given screen, thus being of a larger given size than a specific grade. Compare fine (def. 29a).

f.	remnants, discards, or refuse of various cutting and manufacturing processes.

–noun

1.	a word or group of words designating something, esp. in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.

2.	any word or group of words considered as a member of a construction or utterance.

3.	the time or period through which something lasts.

4.	a period of time to which limits have been set: elected for a term of four years.

5.	one of two or more divisions of a school year, during which instruction is regularly provided.

6.	an appointed or set time or date, as for the payment of rent, interest, wages, etc.

terms,

a.	conditions with regard to payment, price, charge, rates, wages, etc.: reasonable terms.

b.	conditions or stipulations limiting what is proposed to be granted or done: the terms of a treaty.

c.	footing or standing; relations: on good terms with someone.

d.	Obsolete. state, situation, or circumstances.

Algebra, Arithmetic.

a.	each of the members of which an expression, a series of quantities, or the like, is composed, as one of two or more parts of an algebraic expression.

b.	a mathematical expression of the form ax^p, ax^py^q, etc., where a, p, and q are numbers and x and y are variables.

Logic.

a.	the subject or predicate of a categorical proposition.

b.	the word or expression denoting the subject or predicate of a categorical proposition.

10.	Also called terminus. a figure, esp. of Terminus, in the form of a herm, used by the ancient Romans as a boundary marker; terminal figure.

11.

Law.

a.	an estate or interest in land or the like, to be enjoyed for a fixed period.

b.	the duration of an estate.

c.	each of the periods during which certain courts of law hold their sessions.

12.	completion of pregnancy; parturition.

13.

Archaic.

a.	end, conclusion, or termination.

b.	boundary or limit.

–verb (used with object)

14.	to apply a particular term or name to; name; call; designate.

—Idioms

15.	bring to terms, to force to agree to stated demands or conditions; bring into submission: After a long struggle, we brought them to terms.

16.

come to terms,

a.	to reach an agreement; make an arrangement: to come to terms with a creditor.

b.	to become resigned or accustomed: to come to terms with one's life.

17.	eat one's terms, British Informal. to study for the bar; be a law student.

18.	in terms of, with regard to; concerning: The book offers nothing in terms of a satisfactory conclusion.

–noun

1.	the general condition of the body or mind with reference to soundness and vigor: good health; poor health.

2.	soundness of body or mind; freedom from disease or ailment: to have one's health; to lose one's health.

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3.	a polite or complimentary wish for a person's health, happiness, etc., esp. as a toast: We drank a health to our guest of honor.

4.	vigor; vitality: economic health.

–noun

1.	the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one's person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a payment proportionate to the risk involved.

2.	coverage by contract in which one party agrees to indemnify or reimburse another for loss that occurs under the terms of the contract.

3.	the contract itself, set forth in a written or printed agreement or policy.

4.	the amount for which anything is insured.

5.	an insurance premium.

6.	any means of guaranteeing against loss or harm: Taking vitamin C is viewed as an insurance against catching colds.

–adjective

7.	of or pertaining to a score that increases a team's lead and insures that the lead will be held if the opposing team should score once more: The home run gave the team an insurance run, making the score 7-5.

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