adv. phrase, also used as adj. [L. ad to, for, interim adv. ‘meanwhile’ used subst.] adv. During the intervening time, meanwhile. adj. Temporary.
1856. Farmer’s Mag., Nov., 377. That ad interim the recommendations of the Lords Committee of 1851 would be acted upon.
1880. Sir E. Reed, Japan, I. 123. The story of the ad interim empress or regent … has already in the main been told.
Mod. An ad interim injunction was granted.
