temporary

English

Alternative forms

• tempory (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛmpəɹəɹi/, /ˈtɛmpəɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛmpəˌɹɛɹi/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: tem‧po‧rary

Adjective

temporary (comparative more temporary, superlative most temporary)

1. Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.

   Sally was put in temporary charge of the department while they searched for a full-time replacement.

2. Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ephemeral

Derived terms

• nontemporary
• temporarily
• temporariness
• temporary gentleman
• temporary restraining order
• temporary tooth

 

Translations

for a limited time, ephemeral, not constant

• 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
• German: zeitweilig (de), temporär (de), vorübergehend (de)
• Gothic: 𐍈𐌴𐌹𐌻𐌰𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌱𐍃 (ƕeilaƕairbs)
• Greek:

  Ancient: πρόσκαιρος (próskairos)

• Hungarian: ideiglenes (hu), átmeneti (hu)
• Italian: temporaneo (it)
• Japanese: 暫くの (ja) (shibaraku no), 暫時の (ja) (zanji no), 一時的な (ja) (ichijiteki na)
• Kazakh: уақытша (uaqytşa)
• Korean: 일시적인 (ilsijeog-in)
• Kyrgyz: убактылуу (ky) (ubaktıluu), күнүмдүк (ky) (künümdük)
• Latin: temporālis, temporārius
• Macedonian: привремен (privremen)
• Maori: rangitahi, taupua
• Northern Sami: gaskaboddosaš
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: midlertidig (no)

  Nynorsk: mellombels (nn)

• Polish: tymczasowy (pl) krótkoczasowy, krótkotrwały (pl)
• Portuguese: temporário (pt)
• Romanian: temporar (ro)
• Russian: вре́менный (ru) (vrémennyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: sealach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: привремен

  Roman: privremen (sh)

• Slovak: dočasný
• Slovene: začasen
• Spanish: temporal (es)
• 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)

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

   Synonyms: floater, temp

2. (programming) A short-term variable used to store an intermediate result.

   Synonym: temp

Translations

short-term employee

• Catalan: eventual (ca)
• Danish: vikar (da)
• Finnish: määräaikainen työntekijä
• French: intérimaire (fr) m or f
• German: Zeitarbeitskraft f
• Romanian: interimat (ro) n
• Sicilian: jurnataru (scn) (daily worker)
• Spanish: provisional (es), temporal (es)