The phrase "chose the term" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific term or choice that someone has made. Example: After spending time considering her options, she chose the term "unique" to describe the painting.
François Hollande chose the term to define the sort of president he promised to be.
For the initial development work, the author chose the term system definition over many others that the reader may prefer such as mission analysis or concept development.
In the end, I still chose the term because it is in Hebrew, and my nonexistent command of this language meant that the name remained opaque to me.
Several analysts chose the term solid to describe Big Blue's performance, but investors apparently were disheartened by the lack of signs of an industry rebound.
I chose the term "Marshall Plan" not because i think it should be emulated precisely but because it gives us all something to wrap our minds around — a major US-led commitment to broken societies which actually worked.
They said they chose the term to make it clear that they were not trying to challenge Turkey's territorial or national integrity, but rather asserting their freedom and ethnic rights within Turkey.
Each of the five models was tested using each of the three methods for identifying key terms (experts chose the terms, experts chose the terms based on statistical summaries, and an automated process chose the terms based on information gain).
Let's remember: Robertson chose the terms of this conversation, and he might well qualify what he said more carefully if he did another interview today.
We choose the term Open Scholarship to be more inclusive of these other terms.
So began a quixotic – I choose the term carefully – 12-year exploration of what a love story truly is.
We choose the term jurisdiction to define the set of actors that have a common interest in a spatially bound community.
