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Alternative forms

tempory (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temporarius, from tempus (“time”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹə.ɹi/, /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹi/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛm.pəˌɹɛɹ.i/, /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹi/
- Audio (US): (file)
(Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈtem.pə.ɹə.ɹi/, /ˈtem.pə.ɹi/
Hyphenation: tem‧po‧rary

Adjective

temporary (comparative more temporary, superlative most temporary)

Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
Synonyms: temporal (synonymous in one of its senses), impermanent

Antonyms: eternal, unending, neverending

Sally was put in temporary charge of the department while they searched for a full-time replacement.
Existing only for a short time or short times.
Synonyms: transient, ephemeral; see also Thesaurus:ephemeral

Synonyms

temporaneous

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

for a limited time, ephemeral, not constant — see also temporal

Arabic: مُؤَقَّت (muʔaqqat)
Armenian: ժամանակավոր (hy) (žamanakavor)
Azerbaijani: müvəqqəti (az), ötücü, ötəri, sürəksiz
Belarusian: тымчасо́вы (tymčasóvy), часо́вы (be) (časóvy)
Bulgarian: вре́менен (bg) (vrémenen)
Burmese: ယာယီ (my) (yayi)
Catalan: temporal (ca), temporani
Chinese:
Mandarin: 暫時 / 暂时 (zh) (zànshí, zhànshí, zǎnshí)
Czech: dočasný (cs) m
Danish: midlertidig (da)
Dutch: tijdelijk (nl)
Esperanto: efemera (eo), iama
Finnish: väliaikainen (fi), ohimenevä (fi), hetkellinen (fi), määräaikainen (fi)
French: temporaire (fr), provisoire (fr) m or f
Galician: temporal (gl), transitorio (gl)
Georgian: დროებითი (droebiti)
German: zeitweilig (de), temporär (de), vorübergehend (de)
Gothic: 𐍈𐌴𐌹𐌻𐌰𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌱𐍃 (ƕeilaƕairbs)
Greek: προσωρινός (el) (prosorinós)
Ancient Greek: πρόσκαιρος (próskairos)
Hindi: अस्थायी (hi) (asthāyī)
Hungarian: ideiglenes (hu), átmeneti (hu)
Italian: temporaneo (it)
Japanese: 暫くの (ja) (しばらくの, shibaraku no), 暫時の (ja) (ざんじの, zanji no), 一時的な (ja) (いちじてきな, ichijiteki na)
Kazakh: уақытша (waqıtša)
Korean: 일시적 인 (ilsijeog-in)
Kyrgyz: убактылуу (ky) (ubaktıluu), күнүмдүк (ky) (künümdük)
Latin: temporālis, temporārius
Macedonian: привремен (privremen)
Manchu: ᠨᡝᡵᡤᡳᠨ (nergin)
Māori: rangitahi, taupua
Norwegian:
Bokmål: midlertidig (no)

Nynorsk: mellombels (nn)
Persian: زمانه‌ور (zamānevar)
Iranian Persian: مُوَقَّت (movaġġat)
Polish: tymczasowy (pl) krótkoczasowy, krótkotrwały (pl)
Portuguese: temporário (pt)
Romanian: temporar (ro)
Russian: вре́менный (ru) (vrémennyj)
Sami:
Northern Sami: gaskaboddosaš
Scottish Gaelic: sealach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: привремен

Latin: privremen (sh)
Slovak: dočasný
Slovene: začasen
Spanish: temporario (es), temporáneo (es), temporero (es) (of a worker)
Swedish: tillfällig (sv), temporär (sv)
Tagalog: pansamantala
Telugu: తాత్కాలికం (te) (tātkālikaṁ)
Turkish: geçici (tr)
Ukrainian: тимчасо́вий (tymčasóvyj), пли́нний (plýnnyj)
Uyghur: ۋاقىتلىق (waqitliq), مۇۋەققەت (muweqqet)
Vietnamese: tạm thời (vi), lâm thời (vi)
Welsh: dros dro (cy)

Noun

temporary (plural temporaries)

One serving for a limited time; a short-term employee, especially in an office.
Synonyms: floater, temp
(programming) A short-term variable used to store an intermediate result.
Synonym: temp

Translations

short-term employee

Catalan: eventual (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 臨時工 / 临时工 (zh) (línshígōng), 臨時雇員 / 临时雇员 (línshí gùyuán)
Danish: vikar (da)
Finnish: määräaikainen työntekijä
French: intérimaire (fr) m or f
German: Zeitarbeitskraft f
Romanian: interimat (ro) n
Russian: вре́менный рабо́тник m (vrémennyj rabótnik), вре́менный сотру́дник m (vrémennyj sotrúdnik), вре́менная рабо́тница f (vrémennaja rabótnica), вре́менная сотру́дница f (vrémennaja sotrúdnica)
Sicilian: jurnataru (scn) (daily worker)
Spanish: temporero (es) m, temporal (es) m

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