10.71 PRODUCTIVE FEATURE

You can also use prepositional phrases formed with classifying adjectives, such as 'in financial terms' or 'from a political point of view'. Similar prepositional phrases can be formed using the nouns related to these adjectives, for example using 'money' instead of 'financial': 'in money terms', 'in terms of money', 'with regard to money', or 'from the money point of view'.

• Life is going to be a little easier in economic terms.
• That is the beginning of a very big step forward in educational terms.
• This state was a late developer in terms of commerce.

This is a productive feature of English. Productive features are explained in the Introduction.