The phrase "a universal term for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a word or phrase that is widely accepted or recognized across different contexts or cultures.
Example: "In many cultures, 'mother' is a universal term for a female parent."
Alternatives: "a common term for" or "a general term for".
"Negro is a universal term, for me," he said.
Phenomenologists of religion who use the concept "sacred" as a universal term for the basis of religion differ in their estimation of the nature of the sacred manifestation.
The most effective of these was the German 88-millimetre Fliegerabwehrkanone; its abbreviated name, flak, became a universal term for antiaircraft fire.
(Indeed, the trial was largely responsible for making "Holocaust" the universal term for the genocide).
(Indeed, the trial was largely responsible for making "Holocaust" the universal term for the genocide). Critics of the trial insinuated that the Israelis were somehow transgressing the bounds of fairness and justice by pressing these larger points.
"Marijuana has become the universal term in the United States for the plant known as Cannabis sativa," he wrote.
Linguistic groups of Arctic people have no universal replacement term for Eskimo, inclusive of all Inuit and Yupik people across the geographical area inhabited by the Inuit and Yupik peoples.
In a sermon published in London in 1696, the Rev. John Newte, a man anxious to avoid "the excesses of both Rome and Geneva" (i.e., Roman Catholicism and Calvinism), justified having an organ in his church by deriving the word itself from a Hebrew term for "universal love or concord".
It is noteworthy that a frequent Sanskrit term for "universal", "kind", i.e., jāti, is also the term for "caste".
To deal with the accelerated ageing population and with an increased demand for long-term care services, in April 2000 the Japanese government introduced a mandatory social Long-Term Care Insurance SystemakingI), making long-term care services a universal entitlement for elderly.
Thus, Peter of Spain: "Simple supposition is the taking [acceptio] of a common term for the universal thing signified by it" (Peter of Spain: Tractatus (called afterwards 'Summulae logicales'), ed.
