Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
medium term
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For these discussions to take place in an effective manner accurate forecasts are needed over the medium term.
▪ Implementing them means we have to resort to some tough measures in the short and medium term.
▪ It hopes to build its membership up to between 100 and 300 companies in the medium term.
▪ Many traders and economists still believe the dollar is likely to head higher in the medium term.
▪ Politically, however, this is the least likely in the near to medium term.
▪ They could expect to receive a given level of real resources and plan accordingly for the medium term.
▪ This would require political will at the top, informed popular support and preparedness for the short to medium term consequences.
Usage examples of "medium term".
Asset realization is not sustainable in the long term, or even the medium term.
In the medium term, two years, maybe three, they'll bleed us to death along that line.
Someday, you know it, I'll come back to you again for money: seedcorn money, that's all, so we can take a first step-self-financing even in the medium term-beyond the bounds of Earth.
For a time this appeared to be working, but the result in the medium term was to destroy all manner of beneficial insects and other creatures, and to produce resistant strains of mosquitoes which if anything were worse than their predecessors.