A terminal comprising: - at least one bus bar piece - at least one clamping spring, which is bent into a U-shape and has a clamping section that points obliquely in the direction of an associated bus bar piece section of the bus bar piece and forms a clamping point for an electric conductor to be connected in order to form a spring force clamping connection with a free clamping end and with the bus bar piece section, - an insulating-material housing, which has at least one conductor introduction opening that leads to an associated spring force clamping connection and extends in a conductor introduction direction, and - at least one operating lever pivotably mounted about a rotational axis, which operating lever is formed so as to interact with at least one clamping spring by means of an operating section in order to open at least one clamping point of an associated spring force clamping connection when the operating lever is pivoted and which has an operating arm adjacent to the operating section, - wherein for each spring, force clamping connection, two respective operating sections opposite each other for receiving an associated clamping section of the clamping spring of the associated spring force clamping connection are provided at least partially in the space between the opposite operating sections, - wherin a contour for loading the associated clamping spring is present on at least one operating section of a pair of operating sections opposite each other for a spring clamping connection, - and wherein the rotational axis of the operating lever extends transverse to the conductor introduction direction defined by the conductor introduction opening and lies in the space between the plane formed by the bus bar piece section which forms the clamping point and a plane parallel to this, in which the clamping edge of the clamping spring is located when the clamping point is fully opened by pivoting the operating lever. - at least one bus bar piece - at least one clamping spring, which is bent into a U-shape and has a clamping section that points obliquely in the direction of an associated bus bar piece section of the bus bar piece and forms a clamping point for an electric conductor to be connected in order to form a spring force clamping connection with a free clamping end and with the bus bar piece section, - an insulating-material housing, which has at least one conductor introduction opening that leads to an associated spring force clamping connection and extends in a conductor introduction direction, and - at least one operating lever pivotably mounted about a rotational axis, which operating lever is formed so as to interact with at least one clamping spring by means of an operating section in order to open at least one clamping point of an associated spring force clamping connection when the operating lever is pivoted and which has an operating arm adjacent to the operating section, - wherein for each spring, force clamping connection, two respective operating sections opposite each other for receiving an associated clamping section of the clamping spring of the associated spring force clamping connection are provided at least partially in the space between the opposite operating sections, - wherin a contour for loading the associated clamping spring is present on at least one operating section of a pair of operating sections opposite each other for a spring clamping connection, - and wherein the rotational axis of the operating lever extends transverse to the conductor introduction direction defined by the conductor introduction opening and lies in the space between the plane formed by the bus bar piece section which forms the clamping point and a plane parallel to this, in which the clamping edge of the clamping spring is located when the clamping point is fully opened by pivoting the operating lever.