The phrase "an appropriate term for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the suitability or correctness of a specific word or phrase in a given context.
Example: "In the context of environmental conservation, 'sustainability' is an appropriate term for practices that promote ecological balance."
Alternatives: "a suitable expression for" or "an apt term for".
Debate continues about whether "denier" is an appropriate term for those who oppose the climate science consensus.
The more it weighs, the more energy is needed to move it, and thus a vicious cycle occurs (which is also an appropriate term for pedal-powered flight).
In fact, economists have come up with an appropriate term for it: the contagion effect.
"Until you can prove menopausal hormones help women, 'replacement' is not an appropriate term for something that does more harm than good".
Tennessee Williams: Weird Tales is an appropriate term for this group of one-acts.
But reserved is an appropriate term for the old-fashioned, and actually explains the way it got its name.
However, some blood samples were not available for evaluation because consent could not be obtained from some subjects, or collecting a blood sample from a control mother matched to a terminated case woman was often delayed because we had to wait until there was an appropriate term delivery for use as the control.
More than three decades later, a more appropriate term for flip taxes is "transfer fees," he said.
Re "A New Law in Tijuana Regulates the Oldest Profession" (news article, Dec. 13): A more appropriate term for prostitution would be "the oldest oppression".
As a full senescence response is not required to initiate this reaction program and acute stress-associated phenotype (ASAP) can appear prior to cellular senescence (Gilbert and Hemann, 2010), a more appropriate term for the chronic response that exerts long term effects after cell exposure to genotoxicity is a "DNA damage secretory program (DDSP)" (Sun et al., 2012).
In light of these observations, a more appropriate term for this disease process may be equine systemic proteoglycan accumulation (ESPA).
