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- [temp]
- /tɛmp/
- /temp/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [temp]
- /tɛmp/
Definitions of temp word
- noun temp temporary (def 2). 1
- verb without object temp to work as a temporary. 1
- noun temp temporary worker 1
- intransitive verb temp work as a temp 1
- countable noun temp A temp is a person who is employed by an agency that sends them to work in different offices for short periods of time, for example to replace someone who is ill or on holiday. 0
- verb temp If someone is temping, they are working as a temp. 0
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Origin of temp
First appearance:
before 1930 One of the 10% newest English words
First recorded in 1930-35; by shortening
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Temp
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
temp popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
temp usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for temp
noun temp
- assistant — Assistant is used in front of titles or jobs to indicate a slightly lower rank. For example, an assistant director is one rank lower than a director in an organization.
- changeling — A changeling is a child who was put in the place of another child when they were both babies. In stories changelings were often taken or left by fairies.
- cooperator — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- fill-in — a person or thing that fills in, as a substitute, replacement, or insertion: The company used a fill-in for workers on vacation.
- helper — a person or thing that helps or gives assistance, support, etc.
adj temp
- band-aid — A Band-Aid is a small piece of sticky tape that you use to cover small cuts or wounds on your body.
- for the time being — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- make do — something that serves as a substitute, especially of an inferior or expedient nature: We had to get along with make-dos during the war.
- make-do — something that serves as a substitute, especially of an inferior or expedient nature: We had to get along with make-dos during the war.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
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