The interim prefix is ​​used to indicate that something or someone temporarily detects a function. It comes from the Latin expression ad interim: in the meantime.

A company may appoint an interim manager to temporarily take charge of (part of) the company. If the government of a country can not or can not fulfill its function, an interim government will be appointed.

In Flanders, the word "interim" is also meant to be a temporary force or a temporary worker. An interim office is the same as a temporary employment agency.

In 1548, the Interim of Augsburg and later the Interim of Leipzig were issued in the context of the struggle between Roman Catholics and Lutherans in Germany.

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