adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a long-term/short-term loan (= to be paid back after a long/short time )
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I intended the money as a short-term loan.
a short-term answer
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Employing overseas nurses is only a short-term answer to the shortage.
a short-term goal (= that you hope to achieve after a short time )
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Companies should not focus only on the short-term goal of profitability.
a short-term investment (= one that will give you profit in a short time )
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Interest rates will be cut on short-term investments.
a short-term/immediate impact
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A military attack may only have a short-term impact on terrorist activity.
a short/short-term lease
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These flats are let on short leases to students.
short-term memory (= your ability to remember things that you have just seen, heard, or done )
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The drug can damage your short-term memory.
short-term/long-term care
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The home provides short-term care for elderly people.
the immediate/initial/short-term aim (= that you hope to achieve quickly )
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The immediate aim is to develop the travel business.
the long-term/short-term effect (= having an effect for a long or short time )
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Many boxers suffer with the long-term effects of punches to the head.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
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Freeman suspects that nicotine offers very short-term relief.
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What he would do was lend Haynes 500, on a very short-term basis.
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The time-scale ranged from the very short-term to the comparatively long-term: from daily to yearly, with many intermediate steps.
■ NOUN
asset
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Their short-term assets form a much smaller proportion of the total.
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Neither does it reveal the decline in holdings of short-term assets , from over 10 percent of the total in 1978.
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Some institutions, such as building societies, have few if any short-term assets .
basis
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What he would do was lend Haynes 500, on a very short-term basis .
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Essentially they operate on a short-term basis in the context of intense international competition.
benefit
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Here a community is fighting against its destruction for the short-term benefits of outside economic interests.
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His emphasis on short-term benefits versus long-run costs implies that winners are always losers in the end.
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Initially, the Government accepted that the 5 percent abatement would also be lifted from other short-term benefits when these became taxable.
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It takes about 18 months to qualify for the short-term benefits like unemployment and sickness benefit.
capital
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Such critics have argued for the imposition of transaction taxes to choke off short-term capital flows.
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A fall in interest rates will lead to an outflow of short-term capital from the country.
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People ask what can be done to discourage short-term capital flows.
change
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These examples are of short-term changes , and it may well be that long-term changes are even more marked.
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Probably because some short-term changes provide the scaffolding for making permanent changes, casting things in concrete.
contract
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The striker joins recent recruits Paul Lemon and Michael Smith and all three have been signed on short-term contracts .
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It will mount productions in West End theatres, and hopes to sign star actors to short-term contracts .
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The redundancies cover 212 established production workers, 134 staff and 74 short-term contract people, a news conference was told.
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All are employed on short-term contracts , most for less than 13 weeks.
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Research posts often have short-term contracts and are rarely held on a tenured basis.
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The defender had been playing with Limerick on a short-term contract .
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Widnes have signed Brisbane Broncos' 19-year-old full-back Julian O'Neill on a short-term contract .
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In broadcasting, short-term contracts often replace staff jobs.
debt
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But shareholders are still warned to expect a short-term debt hike.
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At the same time, an aggressive firm would make maximum use of trade credit and short-term debt financing.
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Demand for shares should grow in part because the government will come under huge pressure to cut yields on its short-term debt .
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In an uncertain world, lenders normally prefer to lend short-term rather than long-term because of the greater liquidity of short-term debt .
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This can also be used as an opportunity to discuss the relative cost of long-term and short-term debt finance. 5.
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Second, as previously noted, short-term debt is less expensive than long-term debt when the yield curve is positive.
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In addition to its lower cost, short-term debt offers one other advantage over long-term debt and that is its added flexibility.
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Thus, borrowers are willing to pay higher interest rates for long-term debt than for short-term debt.
fluctuations
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This is to say there is a weekly issue designed to match short-term fluctuations in income and expenditure.
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The compensatory financing was designed to give temporary support to countries facing short-term fluctuations in export earnings, predominantly primary producing nations.
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The food price trend, as opposed to short-term fluctuations , over the war years was in the region of plus 65-85 percent.
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The interesting question is whether business is more at risk from short-term fluctuations or long-term trends.
gain
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They must never be broken up for short-term gain . 3.
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All short-term gains have their price, and organizational costs firmly assert it.
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As all Hanson businesses are for sale at all times, why should headquarters asset-strip a good long-term business for short-term gain ?
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For a short-term gain of a one-off windfall profit, far greater future losses were stored up.
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The most fundamental objection is that the government could be ignoring its long-term obligation to manage the debt cheaply in favour of short-term gains .
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Without military strength to assist in their retention, dowries could prove but short-term gains .
goal
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Meeting these attainable short-term goals and progressively crossing them off the list can provide an important sense of achievement and reinforcement.
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A short-term goal provides a trigger point for such intermediate reinforcement.
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Most can for simplicity sake be loosely classified as one of three types: fantasy goals , long-term goals and short-term goals.
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He also had to develop short-term goals for himself every week and evaluate his job performance at the end of the summer.
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Next, select a few races prior to your target race that will serve as your short-term goals and fitness checks.
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The long-term goal of financial security is reached by making and keeping a number of short-term goals.
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When that short-term goal was reached, Rex quit his job at the Department.
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The short-term goals and minimum / standards established for measures in Workplace 2000 will be treated much like control limits.
interest
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But then short-term interest rates rose unexpectedly, and customers shifted money from low-interest savings accounts to high-interest deposit accounts.
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To head off that possibility, the central bank raised short-term interest rates seven times in 1994 and 1995.
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The attraction now is that short-term interest rates are currently half those on long-term bonds.
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By that time, short-term interest rates had fallen below long-term interest rates.
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The measure would force up long and short-term interest rates and could help to support the pound.
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Earlier, the Federal Reserve said that higher short-term interest rates, currently 3%, should not be ruled out.
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This much is certain: Federal Reserve Board policy-makers meet Tuesday to consider whether to raise short-term interest rates again.
investment
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He says he will cut interest rates on short-term investments to below inflation, thereby discouraging speculation.
loan
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The market for short-term loans and deposits is known as the money market.
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The firm pledges its inventory as collateral for a short-term loan , but the lender has no physical control over the inventory.
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It is possible to use accounts receivable as collateral for short-term loans .
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Accounts receivable may be pledged, assigned, or factored as a means of obtaining short-term loans .
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Commercial banks, on the other hand, normally prefer to invest in short-term loans .
measure
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Growth in earnings per share is the key short-term measure so far as the City is concerned.
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The steps are short-term measures aimed at easing public concerns about airbag safety while the automakers work to develop safer airbags.
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This was a short-term measure while a major reconstruction of the North Promenade followed in 1923/4.
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Nor was this a short-term measure .
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Also the rapid growth of unemployment in the later 1920s convinced him that more vigorous short-term measures were appropriate.
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We must not, however, take short-term measures , such as heavy price discounting, in order to retain market share.
memory
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The loss of personality along with the total loss of short-term memory is very exhausting to live with.
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Her injuries have left her with chronic migraine headaches, seizures, insomnia, nausea and short-term memory loss.
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Deaf signers exhibit effects of language knowledge on the form of coding inferred from results of short-term memory experiments.
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While online, the user could play the game, which would be stored in short-term memory .
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Increasing rate of environmental sampling with arousal improves information transfer but creates interference in short-term memory from competing information being sampled.
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Both immediate and short-term memories are pretty labile and easily disturbed by such things as a concussion.
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It usually starts with short-term memory loss but may move to a change in actual social behaviour.
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And it is the short-term memories that may provide the basis for the construction of permanent memories.
objective
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In a competitive climate, it has short-term objectives .
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They reasoned that as salespeople their primary goal was making the numbers, a short-term objective .
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It is important here to distinguish between the short-term objectives of the fieldworker and the longer-term objectives of the anthropological theorist.
performance
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At the top of the agenda is the use of short-term performance data to market a long-term savings product.
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Company executives grumble that analysts are obsessed with short-term performance at the expense of long-term growth and profitability.
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A net margin increase of over 50 cents a barrel contributed to this good short-term performance .
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And a quick look back at third-quarter winner Frontier Equity Fund provides further evidence of the risk of chasing short-term performance .
problem
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Far better to take it in stages, to concentrate purely on the shortest of short-term problems .
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While the upgrade solves short-term problems , it still means the information pipeline will continue to rely on manual data entry.
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For everyone else, short-term problems are a distraction.
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But the trauma of even comparatively simple surgery can cause some people to experience short-term problems with memory and logical thought.
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Whatever the short-term problems in this area, the outlook and for twentieth-century sculpture in general remains bright.
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To cope with short-term problems it proposed an emergency programme covering aid, energy, food and international relations over five years.
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Long-term planning took a back seat in the deliberations of the senior engineers whose efforts were principally devoted to overcoming short-term problems .
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Take account of short-term problems within total numbers such as a rash of trial dates.
profit
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A goal of short-term profit maximisation implies conduct different in important respects from that required by a long-term profit goal.
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John Sculley hoped to boost short-term profits by pricing it at $ 2, 495.
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He blames the Government's concern with short-term profit at the expense of people's jobs.
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This strategy means short-term profits but long-term disaster.
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Employees will understandably be more concerned as to short-term profit rather than long-term growth as part of the purchaser's group.
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For example, the conflicts between current sales effort and market development and between short-term profits and long-term growth. 10.
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It is argued that private sector firms are too risk-averse and too concerned with short-term profits .
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Britain's economy is fragile, run for short-term profits .
rate
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In any case, short-term rates are not far above zero.
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Exhibit 9. 1 shows the so-called normal yield curve, where long-term rates are higher than short-term rates.
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In this case, short-term rates are higher than long-term rates.
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A falling yield curve is explained by investors expecting short-term rates to be lower in the future.
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Prospects faded for a further hike in short-term rates .
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The discount price will depend on current short-term rates of interest on comparable investments in other assets.
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In times of very high interest rates , investors expect to see future short-term rates declining.
solution
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It was a short-term solution to try to get back to winning things.
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They had no short-term solution to the bomber and assassin and they knew it.
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Hereford Road was dangerously near Orme Gardens, but it was only a short-term solution while the film lasted.
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Loans were felt only to provide a short-term solution while grants were inadequate or not available to those in need.
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Helping a client towards independence, however, is certainly not a short-term solution to shortening interviews.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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short-term economic forecasts
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She can still remember things that happened fifty years ago, but her short-term memory is terrible!
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Some of the apartments are available for short-term rentals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Certificates of deposit are another means of short-term , wholesale lending and borrowing.
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During this first transitional phase, de Gaulle's preoccupations were mostly short-term .
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Her injuries have left her with chronic migraine headaches, seizures, insomnia, nausea and short-term memory loss.
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Six subjects did 60 trials of the short-term memory tasks for visually presented letters with or without concurrent articulatory suppression.
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The most poisonous was the desire to have more now: short-term greed rather than long-term greed.
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To cope with short-term problems it proposed an emergency programme covering aid, energy, food and international relations over five years.
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Wall Street takes a short-term look at the world.