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Grammar : Adj, noun

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Phonetic Transcription : tɛmp

Definition of temp

Origin : 1909 (adj.), 1932 (n.), American English, shortened form of temporary (job, employee, etc.).

As in makeshift : adj temporary
As in stopgap : adj temporarily helping
As in temporary : adj lasting only a short while
As in pro tem : adj temporary
As in short-range : adj temporary
As in short-term : adj temporary
As in assistant : noun helper
As in standby : noun substitute
As in substitute : noun someone or something that takes the place of another
As in fill-in : noun substitute
As in lieutenant : noun assistant
As in reliever : noun helper
As in succorer : noun helper
As in helper : noun assistant

Example sentences :

You shouldn't ever have done this—running a temp and—— Good heavens, don't you want to get well?
Extract from : « The Straw » by Eugene O'Neill

You don't know where they want a near-plute as temp'rary office boy, do you?
Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford

It appears that Mr. Lower has in his possession one or two seals, temp.
Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 » by Various

One hour after this operation, the pulse was 140 and the temp.
Extract from : « Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society » by Joseph Bradford Cox

Dugdale says the first mention he found of the bell tower was temp.
Extract from : « London Before the Conquest » by W. R. Lethaby

Temp'ry, as Pippin never failed to assure himself, but pretty.
Extract from : « Pippin; A Wandering Flame » by Laura E. Richards

The estate was in the possession of the Hoghton family as early as temp.
Extract from : « Lancashire » by Leo H. (Leo Hartley) Grindon

We now arrive at the period of the enormous trunk-hose, temp.
Extract from : « Chats on Costume » by G. Woolliscroft Rhead

Women are known to have worked in the Derbyshire lead mines, temp.
Extract from : « Women in Modern Industry » by B. L. Hutchins

Cambridge, one of the revisers of the translation of the Bible temp.
Extract from : « Diary of John Manningham » by John Manningham

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