term limit

noun

1. Often term limits. a statutory limit on the number of terms an official may serve:

   the Twenty-second Amendment, which imposed term limits on U.S. presidents.

Example Sentences

Courts and judges have independence, and by that I mean you’re there until you’re 75 in Canada, and every Western democracy has either a term limit or an age limit on your tenure as a judge.

From Slate

Luckily, we have the data: As the report produced by the blue-ribbon presidential commission that studied structural court reform at the start of the Biden administration found, “the United States is the only major constitutional democracy in the world that has neither a retirement age nor a fixed term limit for its high court Justices.”

From Slate

The move came weeks after Mr. Sall postponed the ballot indefinitely, throwing the country into one of its deepest political crises in recent history as many feared he might try to stay in power past his term limit.

From New York Times

Robinson will now go head-to-head with Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein to become the elected successor of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who has maxed out his term limit after two consecutive terms.

From Salon

Thoughts of a third term were quickly dismissed—even though there was no term limit for the presidency at the time, as there is today.

From Literature