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temporary
adjective as in lasting only a short while
Strongest matches
brief, interim, limited, makeshift, momentary, provisional, short-lived, transitory
Strong matches
acting, alternate, ephemeral, fugitive, impermanent, make-do, mortal, passing, perishable, shifting, short, stopgap, substitute, summary, supply, temp, transient, volatile
Weak matches
ad hoc, ad interim, Band-Aid, changeable, evanescent, fleeting, for the time being, fugacious, overnight, pro tem, pro tempore, provisory, slapdash, unfixed, unstable
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Example Sentences
The bill, which passed Congress without opposition, is only a temporary fix and expires in 2015.
Workers built a temporary rail track through the city to move the statue in a process that took three days.
On Monday, de Blasio called for a temporary halt to protests until after the funerals of the two slain officers.
This month a judge intervened and granted a 30-day temporary stay on police action against Abbott.
Or are the risks so great that a temporary ban is necessary?
It was only a hut of rough boards, carelessly knocked together for a shepherd's temporary home.
But her attention was all absorbed by the swiftly executed act by which Garnache had gained at least a temporary advantage.
Close to the wagon in which our hero lay the natives had erected a temporary hut of grass, about six feet high.
Industrial society is therefore mobile, elastic, standing at any moment in a temporary and unstable equilibrium.
For these plays were not the work of a professional writer, but the recreation of a (temporary) professional soldier.
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On this page you'll find 82 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to temporary, such as: brief, interim, limited, makeshift, momentary, and provisional.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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