the.com/interim
The word for when nobody's willing to call it permanent, including the plan.
means A temporary stretch of time between one state of affairs and the next, used in the meanwhile before something settles.
from Straight from Latin interim, meaning 'meanwhile,' built from inter ('between') plus a form related to the pronoun stem marking place or time — essentially 'in the between.' It passed into English in the 1500s still carrying that sense of an in-between stretch, which is why we still slap it on managers, governments, and reports nobody wants to commit to permanently.
- origin
- Latin for meanwhile, literally
- office use
- often outlasts the thing it replaced
- ceo tell
- interim often means audition without the title
- longest fix
- temporary labels have survived decades unchanged