🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

短期的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tankitekina

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Short-term/ˈʃɔːrt tɜːrm/
adjectivenounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"それは短期的目標にすぎない。"

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As adjective
  1. 1

    Occurring over or involving a relatively short period of time.

    "They signed a short-term lease for the apartment."

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The term 'short-term' combines 'short', derived from Old English 'sceort', meaning brief or limited in duration, and 'term', from Latin 'terminus', meaning boundary or limit. The phrase evolved in the 20th century to describe durations that are not long-lasting.

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