1. Not permanent; not lasting
   "a temporary arrangement"; "temporary housing"
   - impermanent 
2. Lacking continuity or regularity
   "employed on a temporary basis"
   - irregular

1. A worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis
   - temp, temporary worker

Derived forms: temporaries

See also: acting, ephemeral, episodic, evanescent, fly-by-night, fugacious, here today and gone tomorrow, here today gone tomorrow, improvised, interim, jury-rigged, makeshift, parttime, part-time, passing, permanence, permanency, pro tem, pro tempore, shipboard, short-lived, temporal, temporarily, temporariness, terminable, transient, transitory, unstable, working

Type of: worker

Encyclopedia: Temporary

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