たん
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. short-term
Kanji used
short
period (of time)
Pitch accent
んき
Top 23900
Composed of
fault; defect; minor; 5-point card
period; time; opportunity; chance; age; term (e.g. in office); session (e.g. of parliament)
Used in vocabulary (17 in total)
short term; short time
decisive battle of brief duration
junior college; vocationally oriented two or three year post-secondary education institution
short, intensive course; crash course
short-term rate of interest
short-term plan; short-run project
short-term loans payable; short-term debt; short-term borrowing
short-range forecast (usu. weather); daily forecast
Short-Term Economic Survey of Enterprises in Japan (Bank of Japan's quarterly economic survey); Tankan survey
short-term loan
Examples (2 in total)
The short term contract employees were dismissed without notice.
As the recession set in, temporary employees were laid off one after another.