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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

Temporary peaces

• Regensburg Interim, 1542 decree relating to religious disputes in Germany
• Augsburg Interim, 1548 decree relating to religious disputes in Germany
• Leipzig Interim, another 1548 decree relating to religious disputes in Germany
• Interim Peace between Finland and the USSR 1940–1941

Diplomacy

• Chargé d'affaires ad interim, temporary head of a diplomatic mission
• Interim Meeting of Foreign Ministers, 1945, also called the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers
• Interim Agreement, commonly known as the Oslo Accords, relating to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, commonly known as the Oslo II Accord
• Sinai Interim Agreement, also known as the Sinai II Agreement, between Egypt and Israel 1975
• Interim Self Governing Authority, 2003 Tamil proposal
• Geneva interim agreement on Iranian nuclear program, 2013, commonly known as the Joint Plan of Action

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 Committee, precursor to the American Atomic Energy Commission 1945–1946
• Interim Independent Electoral Commission (Kenya), 2009–2011
• Interim Committee on Un-American Activities, commonly known as the Canwell Committee, legislative committee of Washington State in the United States, 1947–1949
• Nassau Interim Finance Authority, from 2000, New York State commission
• Interim Climate Change Committee, New Zealand 2018–2019
• 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