Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective During or taking place during an intermediate interval of time; temporary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the mean time; for the present.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Meanwhile; temporary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In or for the
meantime ;temporarily
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb for an intervening time; temporarily
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin ad, to, for + interim, the meantime.]
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jmjarmstrong commented on the word ad interim
JM has made an ad interim decision to leave it uncertain.
June 27, 2010