Usually means: Duration typically lasting a few months.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word short-term:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. short-term: Merriam-Webster
  2. short-term: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. short-term: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. short-term, short-term: Collins English Dictionary
  5. short-term: Vocabulary.com
  6. Short-Term, Short-term, short-term: Wordnik
  7. short-term: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. short-term: Wiktionary
  9. short-term: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. short-term: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. short-term: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. short-term: Dictionary.com
  13. short-term: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. short-term: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Short-term: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. short-term: Rhymezone
  17. short-term: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. short-term: FreeDictionary.org
  19. short-term: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. short-term: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. SHORT-TERM: Accounting Glossary
  4. Short-term: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Short-term: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  6. short-term: Financial dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to the near or immediate future.
▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to a short duration of time.
▸ adverb:  Over a relatively short period of time.

Similar:
short, short-run, neartermist, present, futural, momentaneous, futurey, futuritial, short-distance, temporal, more...

Opposite:
long-term

Types:
temporary, interim, provisional, transitional, stopgap, more...

Phrases:
short-term memory, short-term debt, short-term solvency ratios, Short-term exposure limit, short-term reserves, more...
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Similar:
short, short-run, neartermist, present, futural, momentaneous, futurey, futuritial, short-distance, temporal, more...

Opposite:
long-term

Types:
temporary, interim, provisional, transitional, stopgap, more...

Phrases:
short-term memory, short-term debt, short-term solvency ratios, Short-term exposure limit, short-term reserves, short-term bond fund, short-term capital gain, short-term financial plan, more...



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