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  • adjective



  • as in interim



  • as in transient



  • as in provisional

  • noun



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adjective

Definition of temporarynext

1

as in interim

intended to last, continue, or serve for a limited time

summer workers looking for temporary accommodations in private homes

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • interim

  • provisional

  • transitional

  • short—term

  • impermanent

  • provisory

  • transitory

  • provisionary

  • makeshift

  • alternate

  • acting

  • ephemeral

  • ad interim

  • proxy

  • expedient

  • conditional

  • fleeting

  • substitute

  • improvised

  • intermediary

  • limited

  • tentative

  • intermediate

  • qualified

  • short—lived

  • terminable

  • terminate

  • short—range

  • replaceable

  • contingent

  • fugitive


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • permanent

  • final

  • fixed

  • long—term

  • unlimited

  • settled

  • unconditional

  • lasting

  • unqualified

  • set

  • extended

  • eternal

  • standing

  • perpetual

  • everlasting

  • enduring

  • endless

  • unending

  • immortal

  • timeless

  • deathless

  • undying

  • long—range

  • dateless

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  • permanent

  • final

  • fixed

  • long—term

  • unlimited

  • settled

  • unconditional

  • lasting

  • unqualified

  • set

  • extended

  • eternal

  • standing

  • perpetual

  • everlasting

  • enduring

  • endless

  • unending

  • immortal

  • timeless

  • deathless

  • undying

  • long—range

  • dateless

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2

as in transient

lasting only for a short time

a temporary lapse of memory

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • transient

  • flash

  • brief

  • transitory

  • passing

  • momentary

  • ephemeral

  • fleeting

  • impermanent

  • evanescent

  • short—lived

  • short

  • deciduous

  • fugacious

  • little

  • fugitive

  • short—term

  • interim

  • provisional

  • acting

  • shortish


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • permanent

  • lasting

  • eternal

  • enduring

  • everlasting

  • perpetual

  • unending

  • endless

  • immortal

  • timeless

  • lifelong

  • deathless

  • undying

  • ceaseless

  • persistent

  • durable

  • long—lived

  • continuing

  • dateless

  • indestructible

  • imperishable

  • indefectible

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  • permanent

  • lasting

  • eternal

  • enduring

  • everlasting

  • perpetual

  • unending

  • endless

  • immortal

  • timeless

  • lifelong

  • deathless

  • undying

  • ceaseless

  • persistent

  • durable

  • long—lived

  • continuing

  • dateless

  • indestructible

  • imperishable

  • indefectible

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3

as in provisional

serving in a position for the time being

the temporary head of the sales division

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • interim

  • provisional

  • acting

  • provisory

  • makeshift

  • stopgap

  • provisionary

  • backup

  • proxy

  • substitute

  • alternate

  • ad interim

  • make—do

  • jackleg


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • permanent

  • long—term

  • permanent

  • long—term

temporary

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noun

as in temp

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • temp

  • associate

  • assistant

  • laborer

  • coworker

  • wage slave

  • workman

  • subordinate

  • wageworker

  • colleague

  • wage earner

  • workwoman

  • hack

  • gandy dancer

  • employee

  • worker

  • grub

  • jobber

  • workingwoman

  • drudge

  • workingman

  • nine—to—fiver

  • toiler

  • flunky

  • underling

  • retainer

  • navvy

  • cog

  • hireling

  • flunkie

  • flunkey

  • hand

  • yes—man

  • jobholder

  • employe


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • employer

  • supervisor

  • superior

  • boss

  • gaffer

  • employer

  • supervisor

  • superior

  • boss

  • gaffer

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временный, переходящий, временный рабочий или служащий

прилагательное ↓

существительное

- временный рабочий; временный служащий

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Словосочетания

a temporary aberration in US foreign policy — временное отклонение от нормы во внешней политике США  
temporary cease-fire — временное прекращение огня  
temporary custody — временное содержание под стражей  
temporary filling — временная пломба  
temporary address — временное место жительства  
temporary injunction — временная запретительная норма  
temporary insanity — временное помешательство  
momentary / temporary lull — временный перерыв  
stopgap / temporary measures — временные меры  
temporary position — временная должность  
brief / temporary respite — короткая передышка  

Примеры с переводом

The delay is only temporary. 

Это всего лишь временная заминка.

It’s an interesting job, but it’s only temporary. 

Это интересная работа, вот только временная.

I’m living with my parents, but it’s only temporary. 

Я живу с родителями, но это лишь на время.

She was employed on a temporary basis. 

Она работала по договору временного найма.

The bridge was erected as a temporary measure. 

Мост был возведён в качестве временной меры.

The temporaries are paid at $6.50 an hour. 

Временные сотрудники получают 6,5 долл. в час.

Due to a small fire, the office will be closed temporarily. 

Из-за небольшого пожара, офис временно будет закрыт.

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The settlers built temporary shelters.  

The workers were lodged in temporary camps.  

We found a temporary mooring in the harbor.  

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Возможные однокоренные слова

contemporary  — современный, одновременный, одной эпохи, современник, ровесник, сверстник
extemporary  — импровизированный, непредумышленный, неподготовленный, случайный
temporarily  — временно
cotemporary  — современник, сверстник, ровесник, одновременный, синхронный

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[ tem-puh-rer-ee ]

/ ˈtɛm pəˌrɛr i /

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adjective

lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need;a temporary job.

noun, plural tem·po·rar·ies.

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Origin of temporary

First recorded in 1540–50; from Latin temporārius, equivalent to tempor- (stem of tempus ) “time” + -ārius -ary

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1. Temporary, transient, transitory agree in referring to that which is not lasting or permanent. Temporary implies an arrangement established with no thought of continuance but with the idea of being changed soon: a temporary structure. Transient describes that which is in the process of passing by, and which will therefore last or stay only a short time: a transient condition. Transitory describes an innate characteristic by which a thing, by its very nature, lasts only a short time: Life is transitory.

OTHER WORDS FROM temporary

tem·po·rar·i·ly [tem-puh—rair—uh-lee, tem-puh-rer-], /ˌtɛm pəˈrɛər ə li, ˈtɛm pəˌrɛr-/, adverbtem·po·rar·i·ness, nounnon·tem·po·rar·i·ness, nounnon·tem·po·rar·y, adjective

un·tem·po·rar·y, adjective

Words nearby temporary

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Words related to temporary

brief, interim, limited, makeshift, momentary, provisional, short-lived, transitory, acting, alternate, ephemeral, fugitive, impermanent, make-do, mortal, passing, perishable, shifting, short, stopgap

How to use temporary in a sentence

  • Officials and experts have said it makes sense to vaccinate even those temporary residents, as it still protects the rest of the community.

  • People think that recessions are temporary, but they’re not.

  • GameStop frenzy leaves behind a mess for Wall Street regulators“There are currently no temporary limits to increasing your positions,” stated Robinhood’s investing webpage as of Thursday morning.

  • The city was the first in the state to introduce a measure requiring some grocery retailers to give workers a temporary hourly pay bump during the pandemic.

  • Even so, some Oceanside residents have questioned how a seemingly temporary District 1 resident can represent them on the City Council, and whether the process short-changed others running for the seat.

  • The bill, which passed Congress without opposition, is only a temporary fix and expires in 2015.

  • Workers built a temporary rail track through the city to move the statue in a process that took three days.

  • On Monday, de Blasio called for a temporary halt to protests until after the funerals of the two slain officers.

  • This month a judge intervened and granted a 30-day temporary stay on police action against Abbott.

  • Or are the risks so great that a temporary ban is necessary?

  • It was only a hut of rough boards, carelessly knocked together for a shepherd’s temporary home.

  • But her attention was all absorbed by the swiftly executed act by which Garnache had gained at least a temporary advantage.

  • Close to the wagon in which our hero lay the natives had erected a temporary hut of grass, about six feet high.

  • Industrial society is therefore mobile, elastic, standing at any moment in a temporary and unstable equilibrium.

  • For these plays were not the work of a professional writer, but the recreation of a (temporary) professional soldier.

British Dictionary definitions for temporary

temporary

/ (ˈtɛmpərərɪ, ˈtɛmprərɪ) /

adjective

not permanent; provisionaltemporary accommodation

lasting only a short time; transitorytemporary relief from pain

noun plural -raries

a person, esp a secretary or other office worker, employed on a temporary basisOften shortened to: temp

Derived forms of temporary

temporarily, adverbtemporariness, noun

Word Origin for temporary

C16: from Latin temporārius, from tempus time

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temporary | contemporary |

As adjectives the difference between temporary and contemporary

is that temporary is not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time while contemporary is from the same time period, coexistent in time.

As nouns the difference between temporary and contemporary

is that temporary is one serving for a limited time; short-term employee while contemporary is someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.

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temporary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

  • Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
  • Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.

    • Noun

    (temporaries)

  • One serving for a limited time; short-term employee.

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    contemporary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)

  • From the same time period, coexistent in time.
  • * Cowley
    A grove born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.
  • * Strype
    This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe.
  • Modern, of the present age.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Robert L. Dorit
    , title=Rereading Darwin
    , volume=100, issue=1, page=23
    , magazine=
    citation
    , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
    , date=May 24
    , author=Nathan Rabin
    , title=Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3
    , work=The Onion AV Club
    citation
    , page=
    , passage=Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.}}
  • Relatively recent

    • Synonyms

    * contemporaneous

    Antonyms

    * anachronistic: in the wrong time period
    * archaic

    Noun

    (contemporaries)

  • Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
    »Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
    »The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries .
  • Something existing at the same time.

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    Pronunciation: 

    US [ˈtempəˌreri]


    UK [ˈtemp(ə)rəri]

    • adj.Short; Short term; Temporary
    • n.Part-time
    • WebTemporary

    Synonyms


    Antonyms

    ad interim impermanent interim provisional provisionary provisory short-term

    Definitions in English

    adj.

    1.

    existing, done, or used for only a limited period of time; temporary workers do a job for a limited period of time; temporary files and folders hold information that is needed only for a short time, and are often deletedremoved or destroyed automatically 

    Other Forms

    adv.temporarily

    n.temporariness

    pl.temporaries

    Example Sentences

    • Hired, on a temporary basis.., to look after the children.
      Source: P. Fitzgerald
    • The forces, housed in..120 temporary barracks at the castle.
      Source: Japan Times

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