interimism
/ˈɪntərɪmˌɪzəm/nounVerified NewThe permanent condition of holding a role officially designated as temporary.
"Interim manager" for fourteen months; "acting lead" through two reorgs; the word interim becomes furniture. Interimism is useful to employers — the role can be re-decided at any moment — and corrosive to the person holding the chair.
Etym. — interim + -ism: a stopgap hardened into an ideology of employment. Five syllables, kept so the bureaucratic suffix lands on the whole Latin stem.
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