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interim /ˈɪnt(ə)rɪm /noun1The intervening time: in the interim I’ll just keep my fingers crossed...- Whoever they get I suggest that they should get someone as soon as possible in order to ensure that players don't leave in the interim.
- I'd heard in the interim that Pam had left him and that he was on his uppers.
- In the interim, she's entitled to disability leave of only about $250 a week - even if she's a principal.
Synonyms meantime, meanwhile, intervening time, interval, interlude; interregnum 2 (usually interims) chiefly British An interim dividend, profit, etc.Ferry and seafreight operator P&O is forecast to climb back into the black when it reports interims on Thursday, with pre-tax profits of £20m from losses of £25.7m previously....- The Royal Bank-backed Tesco Financial Services will also announce its first official profit when it declares its interims this week.
- The bank announced a profits downgrade last month and analysts are expecting interims this week to confirm that it has lost market share.
adjective1In or for the intervening period; provisional: an interim arrangement...- This allows for the formation of whatever transitional government or whatever interim arrangement needs to be put in place.
- Coun Judge wished Mr Paine well and said the interim arrangements will improve the authority.
- Now we must urgently appeal to parents to keep their children away from the site in the interim period.
Synonyms provisional, temporary, pro tem, stopgap, short-term, fill-in, caretaker, acting, intervening, transitional, changeover, make-do, makeshift, improvised, impromptu, emergency; Latin pro tempore, ad interim rare provisory, provisionary 2Relating to less than a full year’s business activity: an interim dividend...- It said it would not pay an interim dividend and halved the net profit forecast for the half-year to September.
- There was good news for shareholders, with the bank proposing an interim dividend of 5.5p, up 12.2% on a year earlier.
- It paid 4p per share as an interim dividend but profits have come under considerable pressure since then.
OriginMid 16th century (denoting a provisional arrangement, originally for the adjustment of religious differences between the German Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church): from Latin, 'meanwhile'. The Reformation produced upheaval in 16th-century Europe, and nowhere more so than in Germany. The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V attempted to settle the differences between the German Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church, making three provisional arrangements pending a settlement by a general council. This was called the Interim, and was reported in English in a diplomatic letter of July 1548. In Latin interim meant ‘meanwhile’. Very quickly people were using interim for other provisional arrangements, and then for ‘an intervening time, the meantime’.
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