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short-run

short-run

27 4.1
Lasting for a short time, not long-term
  • adjective
  • /ˈʃɔrtˌrʌn/
translation icon : de corta duración
  • Buy-offs can work in the short run, but they fail miserably in the long run.

So this is kind of a Televian concept where you can dampen short run volatility, but volatility is truth.

Examples

  • And that does, in the short run, pose challenges.

  • If this were to happen, it would be an economic disaster in the short run for Lesotho.

    Academic text (1991)

  • So this need for short run money could raise or lower prices.

  • People who try it seem to like it, at least in the short run, and keep using it.

  • So in the short run, we're always looking like we're behind, but in the long run, we always win.

  • Rather, at least in the short run, they may understand it only too well.

    Academic text (1999)

  • And Graham like to say, in the short run the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

  • The inflexibility of petroleum supply and demand in the short run is not a market failure.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Perhaps even more important in the short run, the message also resonates with U.S. environmentalists.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The team made some quick improvements in the short-run to meet the project deadline.

Synonyms

short-term
vsshort-run
225 3.3

Lasting only for a little time

is a neutral term referring to brief duration without focus on intention
short-lived
vsshort-run
49 3.9

Lasting only for a short time

is a general term for things that last a brief time
short-range
vsshort-run
1 3.9

About goals or plans that happen soon

is about lasting a brief time, not about when things will happen

Antonyms

long-run
6 4.2

Happening over a long time, not just now

How Long

long-term
502 3.0
temporary
557 3.0
short-run
27 4.1
brief
587 2.0
momentary
44 4.8

Surface Forms

short-run positive
shorter-run comparative
shortest-run superlative

Morphology

short-run = short + run (transparent) = short + run

A straightforward compound of 'short' + 'run' meaning a period of time that is not long; the relation is directly inferable from the parts.

Etymology

Short-run comes from two simple words: short meaning 'not long' and run, which here means a 'period' or 'stretch' of time, as in 'in the long run'. So short-run means something that happens or lasts only for a short period.