'Temporary' definitions:
Definition of 'temporary'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing" [syn: impermanent, temporary] [ant: lasting, permanent]
adjective
Lacking continuity or regularity; "an irregular worker"; "employed on a temporary basis" [syn: irregular, temporary]
noun
A worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis [syn: temp, temporary, temporary worker]
Definition of 'Temporary'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- Temporary government of the city. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
- Temporary star. (Astron.) See under Star. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'temporary'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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