leave vs term

leave

verb
  • To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project). 

  • To cause, to result in. 

  • To let be or do without interference. 

  • To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely. 

  • To transfer possession of after death. 

  • To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant. 

  • To produce leaves or foliage. 

  • To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself. 

  • To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit. 

  • To depart; to go away from a certain place or state. 

  • To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with. 

  • To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with. 

noun
  • The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball. 

  • The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones). 

  • Permission to be absent; time away from one's work. 

  • Permission. 

term

verb
  • To terminate one's employment 

  • To phrase a certain way; to name or call. 

noun
  • A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. 

  • Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made. 

  • A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan. 

  • The time during which legal courts are open. 

  • Certain days on which rent is paid. 

  • Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length. 

  • The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. 

  • Relations among people. 

  • That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus. 

  • A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept. 

  • Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table. 

  • The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force. 

  • A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. 

  • An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart. 

  • A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal. 

  • With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception). 

  • One whose employment has been terminated 

  • Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year. 

  • Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. 

adj
  • Born or delivered at term. 

How often have the words leave and term occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )