temporary

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 22.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective 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. adjective Existing only for a short time or short times.
3. noun One serving for a limited time; a short-term employee, especially in an office.
4. noun A short-term variable used to store an intermediate result.

Similar words

transitory transient ephemeral short-lived passing impermanent fugacious interim episodic terminable

Often followed by

and or relief measure storage workers basis nature restraining

Word family

temporaries temporarily temporariness temporarinesses