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- adj. alternative spelling of short-term.
- n. The near future; a comparatively brief time period starting with the present moment (or other time of reference); the time in which immediate needs and goals are relevant.
Examples
“Their joint career in metropolitan journalism was interrupted however by a short term of residence in Rockford,”
Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly
“The other element of this package was $5 million in short term incentive payments for health workers delivered through the UK Department for International Development (DFID).”
“- These stresses will have an impact on political and social developments across the region, with potential flow-on effects in the short term at least for stability and security, depending on events in particular countries..”
“De Lorean, for example, characterized them as “short-term professional managers” who stay with a company for less than ten years and who are dominated by the need to produce immediate profits during their short term in office.”
“It served to institutionalize a system squeezing prices down in the short term at the expense both of costs and assembler-supplier relationships in the long term.”
“An intervention such as a communication campaign will have greater effects near the top of the hierarchy, as knowledge is easier to change than is bringing about behavior change, at least in the relatively short term Vaughan and Rogers, 2000.”
“I propose that in the short term Margareta Wahlström be appointed.”
“Again there is a lot of opportunities long term: economic, social and strategic opportunities with the countries of South America that transcend any short term Security Council campaign.”
“We also in a different context, made the point that we don't see the need for short term financial economic, the international economic difficulties, to prevent us from continuing to try and accelerate the advance of developing countries, particularly through the Millennium Development”
“This has enabled Korea to negotiate recently a roll-over of short term debt, thereby easing immediate liquidity problems, and has resulted in international credit rating agency, Standard and Poors, upgrading Korea's credit rating to BB+.”
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