0 relating to someone or something that stays for a short time in a place, or to a place where someone or something stays for a short time:
Our analysis excludes visitors in communal establishments (such as short-stay patients in hospital), but includes both resident staff and non-staff.
The people in charge of some private residential homes felt that their regimes were not really suitable for short-stay care.
Those going to short-stay holiday homes were less dependent than those who went into social services short-stay provision.
Present policies favor development of the long-stay and medium-stay sectors and reduction of the short-stay sector.
Those in the short-stay arm were discharged on the morning of the fourth postoperative day with a surgical drain in place.
The test is aimed at the short-stay student and one that reflects the nature of the sector.
Many other grandparents obtain only short-stay single-entry visitor's visas.
They have stays in hospital, in respite care, in residential and short stay homes, and live at home with assistance and so on.
