interim
[ in-ter-uh m ]
/ ˈɪn tər əm /
noun
an intervening time; interval; meantime: School doesn't start till September, but he's taking a Spanish class in the interim.
a temporary or provisional arrangement; stopgap; makeshift: As an interim, her summer job was pretty good.
(initial capital letter) Church History. any of three provisional arrangements for the settlement of religious differences between German Protestants and Roman Catholics during the Reformation.
adjective
for, during, belonging to, or connected with an intervening period of time; temporary; provisional: an interim order; an interim job.
adverb
RELATED WORDS
provisional, meantime, caretaker, acting, stopgap, makeshift, interruption, lacuna, pause, letup, meanwhile, hiatus, breather, break, gap, layoff, time, time-out, breach, downtime
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Origin of interim
1540–50; < Latin: in the meantime
ad interim
[ ad in-tuh-rim ]
/ æd ˈɪn tə rɪm /
adverb, adjective
in the meantime.
Origin of ad interim
< Latin: literally, for the time between
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interim
/ (ˈɪntərɪm) /
adjective
(prenominal) temporary, provisional, or interveninginterim measures to deal with the emergency
noun
the interim the intervening time; the meantime (esp in the phrase in the interim)
adverb
rare meantime
Word Origin for interim
C16: from Latin: meanwhile
Interim
/ (ˈɪntərɪm) /
noun
any of three provisional arrangements made during the Reformation by the German emperor and Diet to regulate religious differences between Roman Catholics and Protestants
ad interim
/ (æd ˈɪntərɪm) /
adjective, adverb
for the meantime; for the presentad interim measures Abbreviation: ad int
Word Origin for ad interim
Latin
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interim
1540s, from Latin interim (adv.) "in the meantime, meanwhile," originally "in the midst of that," from inter- "between" (see inter-) + im, ancient adverb from stem of pronoun is "this, that."
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interim
see in the interim.
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