temporary

this temporary equipoise of power.

an interim agreement.See Synonyms at temporary

they were living in temporary accommodation.

his temporary financial embarrassment.

They are all temporaries like me.

Objective To communicate with the temporary aphasiac by picture presentation.

The defendant alleges temporary insanity.

They just reached a temporary agreement.

The family have won a temporary reprieve from eviction.

foreigners were admissible only as temporary workers.

some temporary workers did not want a permanent job.

the unions had set a limit on the size of the temporary workforce.

Temporary traffic controls are in operation on New Road.

3.A temporary fingerlike projection or lobe on the body of an ameboid cell.

They act at least a temporary block to DNA synthesis in micro-organisms.

In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.

A temporary truce had been reached earlier that year.

Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

But this situation, I claim, is temporary.

Singledom is framed as an involuntary, depressing and always hopefully temporary state.

That, or the effect is only temporary.

But fortunately, such effects are usually temporary.

The reform may be seen as temporary rather than permanent.

Yes, a blip, which is a temporary fault, or mistake.

But most economists say that’s only temporary.

Now it's seeming less and less temporary. So what is the administration proposing to do?

A conventional temporary structure is demolished after use.