The phrase "a term for its" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when defining or explaining a specific term and its relationship to a subject or concept.
Example: "In linguistics, 'morpheme' is a term for its smallest unit of meaning."
Alternatives: "a designation for its" or "a label for its".
It has coined a term for its would-be photo-newshounds: the snaparazzi.
The former is a term for unstructured collections of data and the latter a term for its analysis.
The former is a term for unstructured collections of data and the latter a term for its analysis, which often involves collaborative software for both phases.
The core model included terms for time in years since baseline as well as terms for loneliness at baseline which was centered at its mean and a term for its interaction with time since baseline.
The primary model predictors included a term for Time in years since the baseline as well as terms for harm avoidance at baseline and a term for its interaction with Time.
In response to my posting this question on Facebook, one reader wrote: "It has become acceptable for a historically oppressed group to 're-appropriate' a derogatory term for its own internal use.
In recent months, the Bahraini government has stripped away the citizenship of 250 people, including the country's most prominent Shia cleric; suspended the largest Shia opposition group and extended a prison term for its leader; kept activists out of a United Nations human rights meeting; and rearrested a human rights activist for spreading "false news".
But barring any future tricky stuff, a better term for its genre would be history-of-science fiction.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party fell completely under the control of its most extreme elements, and "traitor" became a routine term for its opponents.
The Syrian government uses the word terrorists as a blanket term for its opponents, many of whom took up arms after the government fired on demonstrators early in 2011.
