short-term
adjective
1
: occurring over or involving a relatively short period of time
2
a
: of, relating to, or constituting a financial operation or obligation based on a brief term and especially one of less than a year
b
: generated by assets held for less than six months
Examples of short-term in a Sentence
this is only a short-term solution to a long-term problem
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To avoid overspending, keep your long-term comfort higher in your thoughts than any short-term whims.
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Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
This is a broken short-term setup.
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But a government that continually undercuts them, whether through making short-term deals that threaten their markets or engaging in wasteful foreign ventures that drive up input costs, makes an already uncertain future even more difficult to navigate.
—Anthony Pahnke, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2026
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Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
This is a broken short-term setup.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026
But a government that continually undercuts them, whether through making short-term deals that threaten their markets or engaging in wasteful foreign ventures that drive up input costs, makes an already uncertain future even more difficult to navigate.
—Anthony Pahnke, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2026
Getty But the deals now in the works between Kyiv and Washington, and Kyiv and Gulf states, likely won't yield direct swaps of armaments to bolster Ukrainian or Middle Eastern air defenses in the short-term.
—Aidan Stretch, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for short-term
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“Short-term.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/short-term. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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