interim Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun the time between one event, process, or period and another
meantime; lag; meanwhile.
- meanwhile the socialists are running the government
adjective satellite serving during an intermediate interval of time
- an interim agreement

L., fr. inter between + im, an old accusative of is he, this, that.

The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc.
All the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream. Shak.
(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.