The phrase "abandon the term" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when suggesting that a specific word or phrase should no longer be used or should be discarded in a particular context.
Example: "In our discussions, I believe we should abandon the term 'outsider' as it carries negative connotations."
Alternatives: "discard the term" or "drop the term".
Given this confusion, one approach is to abandon the term; another is to use it with greater precision.
This unrelated, or paraphyletic, nature of the protozoans has caused scientists to abandon the term protozoan in formal classification schemes.
The official Chinese news media have said that Mr. Xi wants to abandon the term limit so that he can keep his trinity of leadership posts.
But official recognition from America's most prominent dictionary has a way of taking the fun out of slang, and so some proponents of the word were moved to officially, and ceremoniously, abandon the term in August 1993.
Perhaps in the future one might completely abandon the term of primary cutaneous CD4+ small/medium sized pleomorphic T cell lymphoma since it is a form of follicular helper T cell lymphoma and simply refer to these cases as unilesional follicular helper T cell lymphoma where both the CD30 negative and CD30 positive variants appear prognostically similar.
Thus, here again we see that medieval theories of consequence never completely abandon the term perspective to adopt an exclusively sentential/propositional perspective.
Recent recommendations called for obstetricians to abandon the terms of "hyperstimulation" and "hypercontractility" in favor of the more rigidly defined term, "tachysystole" (TS).
As individuals, we must stop thinking about American poverty in an imaginary way; we must abandon the terms of the argument we've been having terms designed to harness our feelings of blame and resentment for political ends, and to make us feel either falsely blameless or absurdly self-determining.
As individuals, we must stop thinking about American poverty in an imaginary way; we must abandon the terms of the argument we've been having terms designed to harness our feelings of blame and resentment for political ends, and to make us feel either falsely blameless or absurdly self-determining.
Those deliberations became far more loaded when, just hours before the meeting began, the European Central Bank, in an unexpectedly aggressive move, said that it would no longer accept junk-rated Greek bonds as collateral for credit, citing the new government's threat to abandon the terms of its existing bailout.
Does it matter if he abandons the term?
