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An interim is a period of temporary pause or change in a sequence of events, or a temporary state, and is often applied to transitional political entities.
Interim may also refer to:
Temporary organizational arrangements (general concept)
- Provisional government, emergency government during the creation, collapse, or crisis of a state; also called interim government
- Caretaker government, temporary rule between governments in a parliamentary democracy; also called interim government
- Acting president, interim head of a state
- Acting (law), designation of a person temporarily exercising the authority of any position
- Interim management, in business
Legal concepts and procedures
- Interim order, court order in effect pending outcome of a case
- Interim trustee, concept in United States bankruptcy law
- Interim appeal, a partial appeal in United States law
- Interim interdict in Scots law, a temporary injunction
- Judicial interim release, part of Canadian bail law
Peacekeeping forces
- United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, from 1978
- United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei in Sudan, from 2011
Sports
- Caretaker manager, temporary manager of a soccer team; also called interim manager
- Interim championship, temporary world championship in boxing and other contact sports
- IFA Interim Intermediate League, Ireland 2008–2009
The arts
- Interim (film), 1953 short film by Stan Brakhage
- Interim (album), 2004 album by British rock band The Fall
- Interim Resurgence, 1985 album by Zoogz Rift
- INTERIM-Theater in Munich
Other
- Interim analysis, in science, analysis of incomplete data
- Interim state, in some religious thought, an intermediate state between one's death and the End Times
- Interim alternative educational setting, in American education, temporary placement for a special-needs student
- Interim Housing, in China, provision for temporarily displaced persons
- MCC Interim Linux, provisional software release 1992
- Institute of Interim Management, United Kingdom
- Interim Fast Attack Vehicle, American scout vehicle
- Interim Control Module, NASA machine
- Interim Capability for Airborne Networking, United States Air Force process
- Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera, taxonomic database
- Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia
See also
- Ad interim, Latin phrase for "in the meantime"
- Interim velim a sole mihi non obstes ("In the meantime, don't block my sun")
- Regent, temporary ruler standing in for monarch currently unable to exercise rule
- Locum tenens, a person who temporarily fulfills the duties of another
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