Usually means: Effective for a limited duration.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. short-acting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. short-acting, short-acting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. short-acting: Wordnik
  4. short-acting: Wiktionary
  5. short-acting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. short-acting: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (short-acting)

adjective:  (pharmacology) Having a pharmaceutical effect principally in the short term.

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