Temporary

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Temporary \Tem"po*ra*ry\, a. [L. temporarius, fr. tempus,
     temporis, time: cf. F. temporaire.]
     Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited
     time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary
     relief.
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           Temporary government of the city.        --Motley.
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     {Temporary star}. (Astron.) See under {Star}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  temporary
       adj 1: not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent
              factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm
              cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary
              housing" [syn: {impermanent}] [ant: {permanent}]
       2: lacking continuity or regularity; "an irregular worker";
          "employed on a temporary basis" [syn: {irregular}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  142 Moby Thesaurus words for "temporary":
     acting, ad hoc, ad interim, alternate, alternative, backup,
     band-aid, blue-collar worker, breadwinner, brittle, capricious,
     casual, casual laborer, changeable, common laborer, corruptible,
     counterfeit, dangerous, day laborer, deciduous, desultory, dummy,
     dying, employee, ephemeral, equivalent, ersatz, evanescent,
     factory worker, fading, fake, fickle, fleeting, flitting, flunky,
     fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, free lance, free-lancer,
     fugacious, fugitive, full-time worker, hand, hazardous, imitation,
     impermanent, impetuous, improvisational, improvised, impulsive,
     inconstant, industrial worker, infirm, insecure, insubstantial,
     interim, jackleg, jobber, jobholder, jury-rigged, laborer,
     laboring man, make-do, makeshift, makeshifty, menial, migrant,
     mock, moiler, momentary, mortal, mutable, navvy, nondurable,
     nonpermanent, office temporary, passing, perilous, perishable,
     phony, pinch, precarious, pro tem, pro tempore, proletarian,
     provisional, provisory, proxy, reserve, risky, roustabout,
     salaried worker, secondary, self-employed person, servant, shaky,
     shifting, shifty, short-lived, slippery, spare, stiff, stopgap,
     substitute, supply, temporal, tentative, ticklish, toiler, token,
     transient, transitive, transitory, treacherous, undependable,
     undurable, unenduring, unfaithworthy, unreliable, unsolid, unsound,
     unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure,
     untrustworthy, utility, vicarious, volatile, wage earner,
     wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl,
     workingman, workingwoman, workman
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  TEMPORARY. That which is to last for a limited time; as, a temporary 
  statute, or one which is limited in its operation for a particular period of 
  time after its enactment the opposite of perpetual.