temporarily able-bodied

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temporarily able-bodied (not comparable)

(disability studies) Able-bodied, where this is viewed as a temporary state that could unexpectedly cease at any moment.
- 2013, David W. Anderson, Reaching Out and Bringing In: Ministry to and with Persons with Disabilities, pages 15-16:
  Temporarily able-bodied persons may unfavorably judge those who are disabled because of their misinformed perception of disability and the absence of any relationship with someone who is disabled.
- [2014, Deborah Marks, Disability: Controversial Debates and Psychosocial Perspectives, page 18:
  One way out of the identity impasse which was adopted by some activists in the late 1980s was to employ the term 'temporarily able-bodied' (TAB) to refer to those people who do not identify as disabled. TAB is used with a certain subversive humour, to challenge the security of the 'able-bodied' position.]