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English Dictionary: interim by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
interim
adj
  1. serving during an intermediate interval of time; "an interim agreement"
n
  1. the time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"
    Synonym(s): interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Interim \In"ter*im\, n. [L., fr. inter between + im, an old
      accusative of is he, this, that.]
      1. The meantime; time intervening; interval between events,
            etc.
  
                     All the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous
                     dream.                                                --Shak.
  
      2. (Hist.) A name given to each of three compromises made by
            the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of
            harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and
            Catholics.
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