interim

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For banks on the edge, their ability to maintain capital levels in the interim is the important factor and the ambient risk for the next few years is sharply elevated.

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  1. noun An interval of time between one event, process, or period and another.
  2. adjective Belonging to, serving during, or taking place during an intermediate interval of time; temporary: an interim agreement. See Synonyms at temporary.

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  • Some new pieces which he had written in the interim were added, and no less than twenty of those contained in the former volume omitted;—for what reason does not very clearly appear, as they are, most of them, equal, if not superior, to those retained. —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I.
  • In the interim, the loftiness of peace was on the tip of the tongue of Ehud Olmert, a man who uttered some of the most courageous words ever said by a prime minister. —  Bloggers.Pakistan
  • In the interim, the first family-in-waiting will stay at the historic Hay-Adams Hotel near the White House. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
  • Durham's yard waste dump is comin 'back online, a couple of years after a stinky, smoldering yard waste fire revealed the city's lapsed permit, the citizens' and state's chagrin, the expensive trucking of such waste to a Virginia landfill in the interim -- an episode that, as the H-S notes, contributed to the reshuffling of decks in City Hall that brought outsider Tom Bonfield to the city manager post. —  Bull City Rising
  • In the interim, about 18 months ago I picked up a new DVD player for about £120, which had HDMI support, did a decent job of upscaling DVDs to higher definition, and (the real reason for buying it), was a writer too. ... —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. From Latin, in the meantime; see en in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, in the mean while, meantime, from inter, between, + im, equivalent to eum, accusative of is, that: see he.
  2. from interim, adv.
 

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