short-term

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If Mars One wasn't just a short-term money grab, they wouldn't be too concerned with collecting 75% of interview fees.

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Quick take

Of or pertaining to a short duration of time.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Of or pertaining to a short duration of time.

adverb

Over a relatively short period of time.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the near or immediate future.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for short-term.

adjective

Of or pertaining to a short duration of time.

adverb

Over a relatively short period of time.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the near or immediate future.

Example sentences

If Mars One wasn't just a short-term money grab, they wouldn't be too concerned with collecting 75% of interview fees.

For every airbnb or Facebook there are a thousand of acquired startups who kept thinking short-term and forgot entirely about long-term.

Specifically, in the short-term, we're looking to build out more powerful search and discovery features on our platform.

My short-term solution is to have packages come to my work.

Rather, the example of the OP suggests that monetary incentives and short-term performance monitoring are not the only way (or even a good way) to encourage creative, productive work.

Perhaps it would be silly for private investors to pile in hoping for a short-term return, but over the life of the canal it could potentially be a great investment for sufficiently long-term entities (such as nation states) to invest in.

I'm also not so sure if it's productive in the long term to portray it as a fight at all, but short-term it probably helps to give these initiatives a little bit of personality (people like to partake in things that feel competitive).