short-term need

collocation in English

meaningsofshort-termandneed

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short-term
adjective
uk
/ˌʃɔːtˈtɜːm/
us
/ˈʃɔːrt.tɝːm/
lasting a ...
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need
noun
uk
/niːd/
us
/niːd/
the state of having to have something that you do not have, especially something that you must have so that you can have a ...
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(Definition ofshort-termandneedfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The whole idea should not be confined to theshort-termneedfor answers to specific questions.
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The most urgentshort-termneedis for an inquiry into the whole system by which money is lent to borrowers to buy their houses.
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This enabled them to respond quickly and appropriately to this urgentshort-termneed.
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The three-year exemption is intended to allow authorities to lease property to deal with a genuineshort-termneed.
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It is a short-term response to ashort-termneed.
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Refuges are therefore deliberately designed to meet ashort-termneed.
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Nevertheless, it meets a very seriousshort-termneed.
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I think they are a long-term proposal which will help in the long run, but theshort-termneedis locomotives and rolling stock.
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We attach considerable importance to ensuring that both the public and private sectors can make some provision for meeting thatshort-termneed.
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It is difficult to quantify the immediate orshort-termneed.
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Taxes are assessed annually, but benefits are based onshort-termneed.
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This mutual aid arrangement is useful, and is thought of as being useful, only in meeting ashort-termneedfor additional men.
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In those circumstances, the medium-term need for water is as necessary as theshort-termneedfor grain.
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We seem to have two problems—the long-term problem of local government finance and theshort-termneedto do something with persistent overspenders.
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I agree that ourshort-termneedis dollars.
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The present shortage is in imported supplies, not home-fed—and thisshort-termneedcould not be met by switching a part of home-fed production to another breed.
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They fulfil ashort-termneed.
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