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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 [informal], temporary worker, casual worker, casual [Brit]

Derived forms: temporaries

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

Type of: worker

Antonym: permanent

Encyclopedia: Temporary