The phrase "aspirational term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a word or phrase that expresses a desired goal or ideal, often in a motivational context.
Example: "The term 'sustainability' is an aspirational term that reflects our commitment to environmental responsibility."
Alternatives: "idealistic term" or "goal-oriented term".
The true coup de grâce, however, came with the attempt to explain #SquadGoals (an aspirational term used on social media to highlight something you and your friends want to accomplish) – and as usual, nobody consulted their black friends about it as they plundered from black youth culture.
Additionally, what is meant by "international standards" is poorly explained, but should be considered as an aspirational term.
According to Bustle, "squad goals" is "an aspirational term for what you'd like your group of friends to be or accomplish".
Focus groups revealed clear differences in perceptions: Eating for Health = positive action one takes to manage existing medical conditions, Healthy Eating = passive aspirational term associated with weight management, Balanced Diet = old fashioned, also dieting for weight loss, Nutritional Balance = maximising physical performance.
Those who talked about the family in aspirational terms, as a static and ideal unit, have a lesser role in the debate, and those who talk about the family as conditional have a greater one.
Yet despite the explosion in memoirs and training guides (including some that focus on how runners think: "Brain Training for Runners," "Elite Minds," "Running with the Mind of Meditation"), very few such books address the mind of the runner in descriptive rather than inspirational or aspirational terms.
We are still quite far from complete gender and race equity in the workplace, but the topic is widely discussed in tactical rather than aspirational terms, and there has been some progress.
While much of the debate on immigrant integration focuses on the (expected) outcomes, a better understanding of the underlying everyday processes – and of the ways immigrants understand and try to shape them in aspirational terms – is in order to refine the understanding of integration itself.
While the afore-mentioned benefits are often upheld in policy documents and discussions as justifications for increased commercialization, they are either expressed in broad aspirational terms or as axiomatic endpoints, and often with little or no evidence orreasoned reflection in support [ 1, 4, 23].
The document in question is what's known as a negotiating text, and in this case it contains a whole grab bag of aspirational long-term goals.
"She's aspirational in terms of what she's done with her career, but she can walk into a room wearing high-tops and a T-shirt, and still be the sexiest woman in the room — which makes her sort of attainable".
