- intended to last for only a short time until somebody/something more permanent is found
- an interim government/measure/report
- The vice-president took power in the interim period before the election.
- He only holds the post on an interim basis.
Extra Examples- The company uses the agency when a vacancy needs to be filled on an interim basis.
- The value of the property almost doubled during the interim period.
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- (finance) calculated before the final results of something are known synonym provisional
- interim figures/profits/results
- The injured passenger received an interim award of £50 000 damages.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a provisional arrangement, originally for the adjustment of religious differences between the German Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church): from Latin, ‘meanwhile’.
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