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short-term
adjective as in temporary
Weak matches
- Band-Aid
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- make-do
- makeshift
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- shifting
- short
- short-lived
- short-range
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
Example Sentences
For Andrew Kerr of the Sustainable Eel Group, "the short-term commercial and financial side won the debate massively."
While some short-term trends show slight improvements, including a small decline in knife crime over the past year, the long-term picture remains troubling.
They are time-consuming and costly to produce, and they reinforce a short-term mind-set.
Local Government Secretary Steve Reed said the move would give mayors the same powers as their counterparts in cities like New York, Paris and Milan, where charges on short-term trips were already commonplace.
Be ready to bend short-term volatility paroxysms to express long-term investment themes.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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