short-term

ˌshort-ˈterm adjectiveadj [usually before noun]

SHORT TIMEcontinuing for only a short time, or relating only to the period that is not very far into the future 短期的 OPP long-term

The treatment may bring short-term benefits to AIDS sufferers.

这种疗法对艾滋病患者可能会有短期效果。

Most of the staff are on short-term contracts.

大部分职员签的都是短期合同。

She’s suffering from short-term memory loss.

她患有短期失忆症。

→ in the short term at term1(6)

—short-term adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

short-term• During this first transitional phase, de Gaulle's preoccupations were mostly short-term.• short-term economic forecasts• The most poisonous was the desire to have more now: short-term greed rather than long-term greed.• Wall Street takes a short-term look at the world.• She can still remember things that happened fifty years ago, but her short-term memory is terrible!• Her injuries have left her with chronic migraine headaches, seizures, insomnia, nausea and short-term memory loss.• Six subjects did 60 trials of the short-term memory tasks for visually presented letters with or without concurrent articulatory suppression.• To cope with short-term problems it proposed an emergency programme covering aid, energy, food and international relations over five years.• Some of the apartments are available for short-term rentals.• Certificates of deposit are another means of short-term, wholesale lending and borrowing.

From Longman Business Dictionary

short-termˈshort-term adjectiveadj

1continuing for only a short time, or concerned only with the period of time that is not very far into the future

Most of the staff are on short-term contracts.

We will continue to manufacture products to build our market share, even at the cost of short-term losses.

2in the short term in the immediate future, rather than later

The bank is unlikely to cut interest rates in the short term.

3FINANCE short-term lending, borrowing etc is for less than one year

Many financial services companies offer high interest, short-term loans.

→ compare long-term

—short-term adverbadv

Short-term prospects do not look good.