1 happening, existing, or continuing for only a little time: --
2 → short run --
3 continuing or having an effect for a short period of time in the future: --
Our short-term financial goal is to survive the next few years.
Roughly a third of the workforce is employed under short-term contracts.
Despite some short-term benefits, these strategies exact many costs.
Stability involves balancing short-term and long-term outcomes to achieve sustainable success.
These risks are short-term and manageable.
5 relating to money that is borrowed or invested for a short period of time: --
Since agents with short-term perspective create their own evolutionary space where they are able to thrive, the impact of long-term traders remains limited.
He proposes the abolition of all welfare benefits, contributory and non-contributory, and their replacement with short-term transitional assistance for anyone not in work.
Authentic artists are seen as talented, creative, and not overly concerned with short-term success, obtained by any means and at any cost.
No such improvements were found in visual short-term memory, problem-solving ability, cognitive speed, arithmetic, or verbal comprehension.
The subject encodes the properties in short-term memory.
The visuospatial sketchpad is responsible for the short-term storage and processing of visual and spatial information.
First, the brevity of the trial restricts our understanding to the short-term effect of liquid fluoxetine in autism.
At least some evidence suggests that some financial executives have attempted to use the pension plan to enhance short-term corporate results and, sometimes, their compensation.
