The phrase "alternative term for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to introduce a different word or phrase that can be used in place of another.
Example: "The word 'automobile' is an alternative term for 'car.'"
Alternatives: "synonymous with" or "another way to say".
An alternative term for "fairytale" is "wonder tale", from the German wundermärchen, which catches a quality of the genre more eloquently than "fairytale" or "folk tale" because it acknowledges the defining activity of magic in the stories.
Indeed, Antony Young, president of Optimedia in the USA, concludes in his new book, Profitable Marketing Communications, by saying: "Marketing ROI is not just an alternative term for effectiveness, impact or results.
Another alternative term for 'fairy tale' is 'wonder tale', from the German Wundermärchen, and it catches a quality of the genre more eloquently than 'fairy tale' or 'folk tale'.
At lunch yesterday a colleague asked me what I thought about 'Resilience' as a alternative term for sustainability.
Though the word is not included in major formal dictionaries, web-based user-generated dictionaries like the Urban Dictionary (which provides "pull me thong" as an alternative term for whale tail ), the Double-Tongued Dictionary and the Wiktionary, have entries for the word.
Though the phrase "intelligent design" had featured previously in theological discussions of the design argument, the first publication of the term intelligent design in its present use as an alternative term for creationism was in Of Pandas and People, a 1989 textbook intended for high school biology classes.
Alternative terms for the different types of interlocks used by research on the topic are "outgoing" instead of sent interlocks, "incoming" instead of received interlocks and "indirect", "neutral", or "non-directional" instead of undirected interlocks (see for instance, Palmer et al. 1995; Tuschke et al. 2014).
Earlier in the day, the participants were asked by DHS to weigh in on the department's suggested alternative terms for defining terrorism.
Discussions are recommended on the use of the term 'palliative' or options for alternative terms, for instance in the training and education of healthcare professionals.
Some codes have alternative terms (for example, Read Code N05z6 has the terms "osteoarthritis of the lower leg" and "osteoarthritis of the knee").
