short-termˌshort-ˈterm ●●○ adjective [usually before noun] 
The treatment may bring short-term benefits to AIDS sufferers. Most of the staff are on short-term contracts. She’s suffering from short-term memory loss. → in the short term at term1(6)—short-term adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- short-term economic forecasts
- She can still remember things that happened fifty years ago, but her short-term memory is terrible!
- Some of the apartments are available for short-term rentals.
- Certificates of deposit are another means of short-term, wholesale lending and borrowing.
- During this first transitional phase, de Gaulle's preoccupations were mostly short-term.
- Her injuries have left her with chronic migraine headaches, seizures, insomnia, nausea and short-term memory loss.
- Six subjects did 60 trials of the short-term memory tasks for visually presented letters with or without concurrent articulatory suppression.
- The most poisonous was the desire to have more now: short-term greed rather than long-term greed.
- To cope with short-term problems it proposed an emergency programme covering aid, energy, food and international relations over five years.
- Wall Street takes a short-term look at the world.
Longman Language Activatorcontinuing or existing for only a limited period of time
· I'm sure this is only a temporary problem.· These arrangements are only intended to be temporary until an alternative is found.· Temporary shelters were hastily constructed as the refugees started to pour in.temporary job/employment · I've got a temporary secretarial job, but I'm hoping to find something more permanent.temporary staff/teacher/worker etc (=who is temporary) · There are always plenty of temporary workers available during the summer months.temporary accommodation · Because of damage to their homes, many people had to stay in temporary accommodation for a few months.
continuing, or intended to continue, for only a short time: · Quite a lot of our staff are employed on short term contracts.· The development programme was established on a short-term basis, just over a year ago.· The Prime Minister emphasized the need to look to the future, rather than only considering the short-term results.short-term memory (=the ability to remember things that happened recently): · She can still remember things that happened fifty years ago, but her short-term memory is terrible!
a provisional arrangement is temporary and can be changed or replaced in the future: · The management has made a provisional pay offer of 7%.· Following a series of provisional governments, the Dominican people elected Juan Bosch as their President.· I've made a booking at the hotel, but it's only provisional - I'll have to confirm it soon.a provisional licence British (=a driving licence that you have while you are learning to drive): · You have to get a provisional licence until you pass your test.
an interim report, measure, arrangement etc is one that is used temporarily until a final or complete one is ready: · Eventually an interim agreement on arms control was reached.· The actual sales figures were 20% higher than those estimated in the interim report in July.· The government will announce interim measures to tackle fuel shortages.
something that is done or used for a short time because there is an immediate need for it, but is replaced as soon as possible with something that is better - use this especially to show disapproval: · The first house we bought was only a stopgap, until we could afford something we really liked.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY She’s suffering from short-term memory loss.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
continuing for only a short time, or relating only to the period that is not very far into the future OPP long-term: She’s suffering from short-term memory loss.· Freeman suspects that nicotine offers very short-term relief.· What he would do was lend Haynes 500, on a very short-term basis.· The time-scale ranged from the very short-term to the comparatively long-term: from daily to yearly, with many intermediate steps.
NOUN· Their short-term assets form a much smaller proportion of the total.· Neither does it reveal the decline in holdings of short-term assets, from over 10 percent of the total in 1978.· Some institutions, such as building societies, have few if any short-term assets.
· What he would do was lend Haynes 500, on a very short-term basis.· Essentially they operate on a short-term basis in the context of intense international competition.
· Here a community is fighting against its destruction for the short-term benefits of outside economic interests.· His emphasis on short-term benefits versus long-run costs implies that winners are always losers in the end.· Initially, the Government accepted that the 5 percent abatement would also be lifted from other short-term benefits when these became taxable.· It takes about 18 months to qualify for the short-term benefits like unemployment and sickness benefit.
· Such critics have argued for the imposition of transaction taxes to choke off short-term capital flows.· A fall in interest rates will lead to an outflow of short-term capital from the country.· People ask what can be done to discourage short-term capital flows.
· These examples are of short-term changes, and it may well be that long-term changes are even more marked.· Probably because some short-term changes provide the scaffolding for making permanent changes, casting things in concrete.
· The striker joins recent recruits Paul Lemon and Michael Smith and all three have been signed on short-term contracts.· It will mount productions in West End theatres, and hopes to sign star actors to short-term contracts.· The redundancies cover 212 established production workers, 134 staff and 74 short-term contract people, a news conference was told.· All are employed on short-term contracts, most for less than 13 weeks.· Research posts often have short-term contracts and are rarely held on a tenured basis.· The defender had been playing with Limerick on a short-term contract.· Widnes have signed Brisbane Broncos' 19-year-old full-back Julian O'Neill on a short-term contract.· In broadcasting, short-term contracts often replace staff jobs.
· But shareholders are still warned to expect a short-term debt hike.· At the same time, an aggressive firm would make maximum use of trade credit and short-term debt financing.· Demand for shares should grow in part because the government will come under huge pressure to cut yields on its short-term debt.· In an uncertain world, lenders normally prefer to lend short-term rather than long-term because of the greater liquidity of short-term debt.· This can also be used as an opportunity to discuss the relative cost of long-term and short-term debt finance. 5.· Second, as previously noted, short-term debt is less expensive than long-term debt when the yield curve is positive.· In addition to its lower cost, short-term debt offers one other advantage over long-term debt and that is its added flexibility.· Thus, borrowers are willing to pay higher interest rates for long-term debt than for short-term debt.
· This is to say there is a weekly issue designed to match short-term fluctuations in income and expenditure.· The compensatory financing was designed to give temporary support to countries facing short-term fluctuations in export earnings, predominantly primary producing nations.· The food price trend, as opposed to short-term fluctuations, over the war years was in the region of plus 65-85 percent.· The interesting question is whether business is more at risk from short-term fluctuations or long-term trends.
· They must never be broken up for short-term gain. 3.· All short-term gains have their price, and organizational costs firmly assert it.· As all Hanson businesses are for sale at all times, why should headquarters asset-strip a good long-term business for short-term gain?· For a short-term gain of a one-off windfall profit, far greater future losses were stored up.· The most fundamental objection is that the government could be ignoring its long-term obligation to manage the debt cheaply in favour of short-term gains.· Without military strength to assist in their retention, dowries could prove but short-term gains.
· Meeting these attainable short-term goals and progressively crossing them off the list can provide an important sense of achievement and reinforcement.· A short-term goal provides a trigger point for such intermediate reinforcement.· Most can for simplicity sake be loosely classified as one of three types: fantasy goals, long-term goals and short-term goals.· He also had to develop short-term goals for himself every week and evaluate his job performance at the end of the summer.· Next, select a few races prior to your target race that will serve as your short-term goals and fitness checks.· The long-term goal of financial security is reached by making and keeping a number of short-term goals.· When that short-term goal was reached, Rex quit his job at the Department.· The short-term goals and minimum / standards established for measures in Workplace 2000 will be treated much like control limits.
· But then short-term interest rates rose unexpectedly, and customers shifted money from low-interest savings accounts to high-interest deposit accounts.· To head off that possibility, the central bank raised short-term interest rates seven times in 1994 and 1995.· The attraction now is that short-term interest rates are currently half those on long-term bonds.· By that time, short-term interest rates had fallen below long-term interest rates.· The measure would force up long and short-term interest rates and could help to support the pound.· Earlier, the Federal Reserve said that higher short-term interest rates, currently 3%, should not be ruled out.· This much is certain: Federal Reserve Board policy-makers meet Tuesday to consider whether to raise short-term interest rates again.
· He says he will cut interest rates on short-term investments to below inflation, thereby discouraging speculation.
· The market for short-term loans and deposits is known as the money market.· The firm pledges its inventory as collateral for a short-term loan, but the lender has no physical control over the inventory.· It is possible to use accounts receivable as collateral for short-term loans.· Accounts receivable may be pledged, assigned, or factored as a means of obtaining short-term loans.· Commercial banks, on the other hand, normally prefer to invest in short-term loans.
· Growth in earnings per share is the key short-term measure so far as the City is concerned.· The steps are short-term measures aimed at easing public concerns about airbag safety while the automakers work to develop safer airbags.· This was a short-term measure while a major reconstruction of the North Promenade followed in 1923/4.· Nor was this a short-term measure.· Also the rapid growth of unemployment in the later 1920s convinced him that more vigorous short-term measures were appropriate.· We must not, however, take short-term measures, such as heavy price discounting, in order to retain market share.
· The loss of personality along with the total loss of short-term memory is very exhausting to live with.· Her injuries have left her with chronic migraine headaches, seizures, insomnia, nausea and short-term memory loss.· Deaf signers exhibit effects of language knowledge on the form of coding inferred from results of short-term memory experiments.· While online, the user could play the game, which would be stored in short-term memory.· Increasing rate of environmental sampling with arousal improves information transfer but creates interference in short-term memory from competing information being sampled.· Both immediate and short-term memories are pretty labile and easily disturbed by such things as a concussion.· It usually starts with short-term memory loss but may move to a change in actual social behaviour.· And it is the short-term memories that may provide the basis for the construction of permanent memories.
· In a competitive climate, it has short-term objectives.· They reasoned that as salespeople their primary goal was making the numbers, a short-term objective.· It is important here to distinguish between the short-term objectives of the fieldworker and the longer-term objectives of the anthropological theorist.
· At the top of the agenda is the use of short-term performance data to market a long-term savings product.· Company executives grumble that analysts are obsessed with short-term performance at the expense of long-term growth and profitability.· A net margin increase of over 50 cents a barrel contributed to this good short-term performance.· And a quick look back at third-quarter winner Frontier Equity Fund provides further evidence of the risk of chasing short-term performance.
· Far better to take it in stages, to concentrate purely on the shortest of short-term problems.· While the upgrade solves short-term problems, it still means the information pipeline will continue to rely on manual data entry.· For everyone else, short-term problems are a distraction.· But the trauma of even comparatively simple surgery can cause some people to experience short-term problems with memory and logical thought.· Whatever the short-term problems in this area, the outlook and for twentieth-century sculpture in general remains bright.· To cope with short-term problems it proposed an emergency programme covering aid, energy, food and international relations over five years.· Long-term planning took a back seat in the deliberations of the senior engineers whose efforts were principally devoted to overcoming short-term problems.· Take account of short-term problems within total numbers such as a rash of trial dates.
· A goal of short-term profit maximisation implies conduct different in important respects from that required by a long-term profit goal.· John Sculley hoped to boost short-term profits by pricing it at $ 2, 495.· He blames the Government's concern with short-term profit at the expense of people's jobs.· This strategy means short-term profits but long-term disaster.· Employees will understandably be more concerned as to short-term profit rather than long-term growth as part of the purchaser's group.· For example, the conflicts between current sales effort and market development and between short-term profits and long-term growth. 10.· It is argued that private sector firms are too risk-averse and too concerned with short-term profits.· Britain's economy is fragile, run for short-term profits.
· In any case, short-term rates are not far above zero.· Exhibit 9. 1 shows the so-called normal yield curve, where long-term rates are higher than short-term rates.· In this case, short-term rates are higher than long-term rates.· A falling yield curve is explained by investors expecting short-term rates to be lower in the future.· Prospects faded for a further hike in short-term rates.· The discount price will depend on current short-term rates of interest on comparable investments in other assets.· In times of very high interest rates, investors expect to see future short-term rates declining.
· It was a short-term solution to try to get back to winning things.· They had no short-term solution to the bomber and assassin and they knew it.· Hereford Road was dangerously near Orme Gardens, but it was only a short-term solution while the film lasted.· Loans were felt only to provide a short-term solution while grants were inadequate or not available to those in need.· Helping a client towards independence, however, is certainly not a short-term solution to shortening interviews.
The treatment may bring short-term benefits to AIDS sufferers. Most of the staff are on short-term contracts. She’s suffering from short-term memory loss. → in the short term at term1(6)—short-term adverb