Definition: 1. Lasting a short time; designed only for a short period of time in the future. 2. Relating to or extending over a limited period.
Use 'short-term' in a sentence:
1. "Procrastinators tend to live for today rather than tomorrow, they tend to live for short-term gain and long term pain," he writes.
2. When observing the Chinese economy, one should not just focus on its short-term performance or the performance of a particular sector. Rather, one should look at the overall trend, the bigger picture and the total score.
3. A country lacking short-term liquidity would be loth to approach the IMF for a loan under the "stand-by arrangement", the mainstay of the IMF's crisis lending.
4. Dr. Mark Salter, a consultant psychiatrist, told the BBC: "Baking and cooking are good therapies. They help patients develop planning skills, short-term memories and social skills—lack of which may lead to mental illness."
5. We need long-term solutions, not short-term Band-Aid ones.
6. The short-term experience can also serve as a test showing if a student is able to live an independent life abroad or not.
7. In formulating policies, we must not be seeking short-term successes and quick profits ( or we should take a long-range view of things).
8. DARPA programs are highly applied and short-term oriented, while its support for basic research in robotics has been drastically reduced in the past year.
9. "There seems to be a predominance of short-term thinking at the expense of long-term investing," said Commissioner Daniel Gallagher of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a speech this week.
10. In the short-term, the birds seem to benefit from overwintering on rubbish dumps.
11. They are prepared to wait longer for a pay-back from investment rather than concentrate on short-term profits.
12. Short-term memory is impaired, so are abilities to make decisions and to concentrate.
13. Pop-up retail, is a trend of opening short-term sales spaces popular in America and Europe.
14. Laughter produces short-term changes in the function of the heart and blood circulation, increasing heart rate and oxygen consumption.
15. The rest of the staff have been hired on short-term contracts.
16. The company has 90 staff, almost all on short-term contracts.
17. There was a net outflow of about £ 50m in short-term capital.
18. The currency is paid in the form of long-term bonds and short-term bonds.
19. "The short-term fight against the snail, and a mid-to long-term fight against climate change."
20. We need to actively8 and steadily9 solve such problems by taking both short-term and long-term influence into consideration.
21. His short-term memory is failing.
22. They had a short-term vacancy for a person on the foreign desk.
23. For this they are running short-term courses and evening classes.
24. Exposures to odors in natural environments often occur over far longer periods, and the resulting adaptations may differ qualitatively from short-term olfactory adaptation.
25. Investors weren't concerned about short-term profits over the next few years.
26. Extensive research has shown that the effects of short-term price promotions on sales are themselves short-term.
27. Curriculum work alone may only have short-term effects; it should be an addition to policy work, not a substitute.
28. International gold prices average short-term bond, straddle the two sides deadlocked.
29. Repeating can help you turn short-term memory into long-term memory.
30. You have to wait for the speaker to deliver quite a chunk of language before you then put it into the second language, which puts your short-term memory under intense stress.
31. In January the typical carrier had enough cash to cover between so% and 80% of short-term liabilities and about two months of revenues, IATA says.
32. The short-term training class has been run three times.
33. Though he's suffering the full effects of insomnia, his sleep difficulty is short-term, and should resolve quickly.
34. The clock registers both short-term irregularities and long-term trends in river dynamics.
35. UK researchers found moving to a green space had a sustained positive effect, unlike pay rises or promotions, which only provided a short-term boost.
36. This includes the impact of short-term lets on housing costs and quality of life for residents.
37. Their findings disprove accepted notions about homeworkers: that they are unqualified for other jobs and that they use homework as a short-term strategy for dealing with child care.
38. A spokesperson for The Sleep Charity said: “ While prescription7 drugs can help with short-term insomnia, and help to break a cycle of poor sleep, it doesn't tackle the root problem. They really just mask the symptoms.
39. They discussed forgetting in short-term memory and retroactive inhibition.
40. This is a cynical manipulation of the situation for short-term political gain.
41. Short-term effects include the disturbances directly associated with the action of the pest, which may cause the defoliation, loss of vigor, or death of trees.
42. When it comes to eating smart for your heart, thinking about short-term fixes and simplify life with a straightforward approach that will serve you well for years to come.
43. Short-term securities can also be held as part of an investment portfolio.
44. There is no easy short-term solution to the country's chronic economic malaise.
45. There is no easy short-term solution to Britain's chronic economic malaise.
46. The term retreat is applied to the short-term escape behavior of desert animals, and it usually assumes the pattern of a daily rhythm.
47. The emerging consensus around the bill is a sign that legislators are getting frightened about a politically embarrassing short-term collapse at the USPS.
48. I'm looking for the highest rate possible on a short-term certificate of deposit account.
49. It exposes the fallacy of short-term industrial gain at long-term environmental expense.
50. We do not try to fine-tune the economy on the basis of short-term predictions.
51. Short-term contracts increase staff turnover.
52. A new study suggested that our short-term memory also may play a role in appetite.
53. This boom has been engineered by the Chancellor for short-term political reasons.
