SHORT TERM meaning: Duration typically lasting few months

We found 38 dictionaries that define the word short term:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

short term: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
short-term, the short term: Merriam-Webster
short-term: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
short-term: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
short-term, short-term: Collins English Dictionary
short-term: Vocabulary.com
Short-Term, Short-term, short-term: Wordnik
short-term: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
short-term, short term: Wiktionary
short-term: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
short-term: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
short-term: Infoplease Dictionary
short-term, short term: Dictionary.com
short-term: Online Etymology Dictionary
short-term: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Short-term, Short term: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
short-term: FreeDictionary.org
short-term: Mnemonic Dictionary
short-term, short term, the short term: TheFreeDictionary.com
short-term: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
short-term: Rhymezone

Business (12 matching dictionaries)

short term: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
Short-term: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
Short-term: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
short term: Finance-Glossary.com
Short Term: Investopedia
Dictionary of Management Jargon (No longer online)
the short term: Legal dictionary
Short Term, short-term, the short term: Financial dictionary
Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
SHORT-TERM: Accounting Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Short Term, the short term: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

Short Term, the short term: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

the short term: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (short term)

▸ noun: 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.
▸ adjective: Alternative form of short-term [Of or pertaining to the near or immediate future.]

Opposite:

long term, long-term

Types:

temporary, interim, provisional, transitional, stopgap, more...

Phrases:

short term memory, short term debt, the short term, short term exposure limit, short term gain, more...

Adjectives:

now, instant, recent, soon, stat, just, today, fast, brief, present

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