adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a permanent/temporary employee
▪ Some of the temporary employees were later hired as permanent staff.
a permanent/temporary home
▪ Flood victims were offered temporary homes.
a permanent/temporary position
▪ It's a temporary position initially, for six months.
a permanent/temporary post
▪ I have a two-year contract, not a permanent post.
a temporary absence
▪ No one noticed her temporary absence.
a temporary exhibition
▪ Temporary exhibitions are usually held in the basement.
a temporary halt
▪ The game was brought to a temporary halt when the floodlights failed.
a temporary measure (=something done for a limited period of time to deal with a problem)
▪ The tents were used as a temporary measure to replace homes destroyed in the floods.
a temporary setback (=lasting only a short time)
▪ Try not to be discouraged by temporary setbacks.
a temporary/casual worker (=working somewhere for a limited period of time)
▪ Employees were fired and replaced with temporary workers.
different/political/temporary etc in nature
▪ Any government funding would be temporary in nature.
momentary/temporary/occasional etc lapse
▪ Despite the occasional lapse, this was a fine performance by the young saxophonist.
permanent/temporary employment
▪ university graduates entering permanent employment for the first time
permanent/temporary residence
▪ Jeff has permanent residence in Canada, but is still a US citizen.
permanent/temporary staff
▪ Much of the work is done by temporary staff.
temporary blip
▪ A government spokesman described the rise in inflation as a temporary blip.
temporary/permanent
▪ The job is only temporary, but I’m hoping it will be made permanent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ In this case you will probably join as temporary legal assistant with a view to establishment later.
▪ These items should include the salary group classed as permanent, as temporary, or as services secured on a contract basis.
▪ Rachaela thought of the job as temporary.
▪ Some are as temporary as that memory mansion.
▪ Former managing director Derek Dooley is being invited to return as temporary chairman until new owners take control.
▪ Bush will serve as temporary co-chairman with New Jersey Gov.
▪ The student found that it was not uncommon to regard the young person's stay in residential care as temporary.
▪ If at all, they are allowed in only as temporary visitors.
only
▪ As a youngster - I was twelve when I came to this country - I imagined it was only temporary.
▪ But their safety was only temporary.
▪ That, however, would be only temporary.
▪ The congressional proslavery compromises had brought only temporary appeasement.
▪ Why is it important that the legal monopoly should be only temporary?
▪ Usually, this feeling is only temporary and passes in a couple of days.
▪ In the past secret agreements allowed for breathing space, which by virtue of that very secrecy was only temporary.
▪ Seizures are only temporary, with little in the way of problems between them.
■ NOUN
accommodation
▪ Brian, you and Kerrie have been in temporary accommodation since January 1991.
▪ Until then, Ted is staying in temporary accommodation and praying that lightning never strikes 3 times in the same place.
▪ The local authority brought proceedings in the county court for possession of the temporary accommodation.
▪ It is temporary accommodation which puts most permanent local housing to shame.
▪ With the help of the Village Retail Services Association it formed a co-operative to run a village store in temporary accommodation.
▪ It is estimated more than 2,000 people now sleep on London's streets and another 50,000 in various forms of temporary accommodation.
▪ We do not pay the cost of meals at the temporary accommodation. 2.
▪ The building has twice been enlarged and now has temporary accommodation.
basis
▪ I caddied on a temporary basis for Nick in Los Angeles and in Kapalua.
▪ On a temporary basis, yes.
▪ In addition, the Palacio de Velazquez would be made available to the Prado on a temporary basis.
▪ Moses said, referring to its ability to host professional teams on a temporary basis.
▪ This was often done on a temporary basis at first, but usually the fences became permanent hedges or walls.
▪ The only justification for sub-contracting is if you need to hire in some specialist expertise on a temporary basis.
▪ There is a vacant night-porter's job we might be able to fill on a temporary basis.
blip
▪ The tiny athlete believes her rare lapse in Tokyo was just a temporary blip in a career of major championship success.
▪ Again, we must focus on structural, ongoing deficits, rather than temporary blips that naturally accompany recessions.
▪ You will recognise them for no more or less than temporary blips on a radar screen of satisfaction.
exhibition
▪ This has galleries on two levels, the lower one for the recently discovered paintings, the upper one for temporary exhibitions.
▪ An intensive programme of temporary exhibitions has also been organised by the Centro Reina Sofía for 1992.
▪ Elsewhere, there are puppets, a jumble of toys, a vast doll collection and excellent temporary exhibitions.
▪ The extension would provide space for offices, cloakrooms, a souvenir shop and bookshop, the library and temporary exhibitions.
▪ The adjacent Museum and Art Gallery features many temporary exhibitions.
▪ Will the reorganisation affect the museum's capacity to present temporary exhibitions?
▪ On the ground floor there is a temporary exhibition gallery with an exciting programme.
▪ There is a programme of temporary exhibitions throughout the year.
help
▪ Regular evaluation of employee job skills is an important part of the job for those interviewers working in temporary help services companies.
▪ In some cases, the temporary help company will train employees to improve their skills.
▪ The overwhelming majority of new jobs will be with temporary help or personnel supply firms.
▪ Rapid expansion of firms supplying temporary help will be responsible for much of the growth in this occupation.
▪ To people in those days, relief meant temporary help in a hard time, until they could do better.
▪ Some employment interviewers work in temporary help services companies.
▪ These companies send out their own employees to firms that need temporary help.
home
▪ Soon after Sri Lanka experienced another series of riots and communal disturbances which left thousands of refugees in temporary homes.
▪ They left their first temporary home last fall when the overcrowded camp ran out of fresh water and space.
▪ They find themselves cover in secluded areas, adopting a temporary home which they may use on a number of occasions.
▪ At their new camp just a few miles from Polho, residents live in temporary homes with plastic sheeting for walls.
▪ Stanley is a very strong character who does offer her a temporary home.
▪ The Maritime Province was both the temporary home for working-class compatriots from the homeland and the base for patriots residing abroad.
▪ A foam filter plus a bucket in warm place will make a temporary home for many fish.
▪ The tank became a temporary home for most of John and Jenny's livestock during the creation of the new pond.
job
▪ In the summer of 1944 Burgess got a temporary job in the press department of the Foreign Office.
▪ Those resources are expected to help build 5, 000 new homes and generate 23, 000 temporary jobs.
▪ Up to 60, 000 temporary jobs are expected to pump an estimated $ 2 billion in wages into the local economy.
▪ Term limitations, imposed to convert longtime incumbents into temporary job holders, have a similar effect.
▪ However, they particularly affect women with their discontinuous employment patterns and temporary jobs.
▪ Some full-time RVers take temporary jobs, following construction booms, even disasters.
▪ It was pointed out that women in West Belfast who are in employment are in low paid, part-time, temporary jobs.
▪ Later he found a temporary job and a room.
loss
▪ Discovering the reason for the temporary loss of libido and keeping the whole problem in perspective will help.
▪ Commercial Union began to cope with the temporary loss of its headquarters building by making the maximum use of available space elsewhere.
▪ He says conventional low-calorie diets cause only a temporary loss of weight.
measure
▪ Thus this approach may be considered both safe and effective as a temporary measure to relieve stone related biliary obstruction.
▪ But more likely they will just be a temporary measure until even better technologies arrive.
▪ Severn Trent has already introduced temporary measures at the site which will help improve the situation.
▪ The government is now operating under a temporary measure, or continuing resolution, that expires at the end of next week.
▪ In either case the patient should be reassured that this is only a temporary measure.
▪ Although a temporary measure, it soon became apparent that rent control could not be abolished with the war's end.
▪ These paints should be considered a temporary measure until the cause of the damp has been found and cured.
▪ This elaborated temporary measures for implementing the planned sale of state-owned enterprises.
nature
▪ Short-term cases are often small children to whom the separation is so alarming that its temporary nature is irrelevant to them.
▪ Roosevelt rode out the storm by stressing the temporary nature of the deal.
relief
▪ Gripped by recession, some banks are now asking for at least temporary relief from these capital standards.
▪ In the morning they would hastily dry them, and get a temporary relief.
▪ This was only a temporary relief, though.
▪ On the other hand one wonders whether the fish obtains temporary relief from the irritation by having a scratch?
▪ Alexander's disappointment was indescribable; he now thought that he would never again be able to have more than temporary relief.
▪ Arnica 200 afforded temporary relief for two hours; a repeat dose helped temporarily.
residence
▪ Police were not interested in her marriage certificate, her permit to leave home or her temporary residence card for Zhuhai.
▪ Management of construction projects overseas usually entails temporary residence in another country.
▪ While Edinburgh itself was growing in importance as a centre of government, the temporary residence was refashioned into a palace.
setback
▪ But it was a temporary setback that made him even more determined to achieve his boyhood dream.
solution
▪ This is only a temporary solution and there have been many attempts to organise more humane working systems.
▪ Caltrans recently agreed to spend $ 17 million on a temporary solution.
▪ Research institutes seem to have found at least a temporary solution to their problems.
▪ However, a phone call from Mrs Meadows seemed to offer a temporary solution to their problem.
▪ A temporary solution is to enlarge the pinhole, empty out the water and tie a plastic bag over the ball.
▪ Orders assigning him to the Simonova's mission were make-work, a temporary solution at best.
staff
▪ Many members, from all Banks, feel that the Banks' temporary staff numbers are not within the agreed limits.
▪ Until then the office will be covered by temporary staff.
▪ Then even Civil Service temporary staff were dismissed.
▪ Many temporary staff at sports centres are to go.
▪ The grant also includes £15 000 for the appointment of two temporary staff to update maps showing legal rights of way.
▪ Add in temporary staff and the self-employed and two workers in five are outside permanent, full-time employment.
storage
▪ A temporary storage depot would have to be established by 1995 and a second would have to be available around 2005.
▪ The shipping companies deal with temporary storage of parts; only what is needed that day appears at the plant.
▪ Windows 95 handles temporary storage differently, but still uses a swap file.
suspension
▪ The university gave no reason for the temporary suspension.
▪ The operation continued Friday after a temporary suspension of flight activity.
▪ The London Stock Exchange will not normally grant a temporary suspension for more than 48 hours.
▪ The temporary suspension gives the exchange time to investigate any abnormalities in trading and cuts down market volatility, he said.
▪ And it could also have the power to impose a temporary suspension of currency convertibility.
visa
▪ The law limits jobs that can be filled by workers on temporary visas to no more than 65, 000 a year.
work
▪ Other team members seek more temporary work.
▪ Make temporary work an interim move.
▪ Private agencies usually cover temporary work only.
▪ To modern ears it is ironic that to job was to do temporary work.
▪ Other useful people may be the secretary of a committee you've served on or some one you've done temporary work for.
▪ Overburdened support personnel rushed from one temporary work assignment to another, their ranks dangerously depleted by a recent company-wide restructuring.
▪ Private agencies deal with temporary work for a maximum six months.
▪ The third proposal is for the introduction of a temporary work safety-net.
worker
▪ Members of this, the larger group of temporary workers, were most likely to be unskilled or semi-skilled.
▪ Cirrus said its workforce of 3, 500 will be cut in all areas, with both full-time and temporary workers affected.
▪ The number of temporary workers, for example, is rising.
▪ Some overtime may be required, and temporary workers may need their own transportation to make employer visits.
▪ Employers were concerned that huge costs would be incurred if the Social Charter's provisions were extended to temporary workers.
▪ Big agricultural businesses, primarily in California, pushed hard for the temporary workers.
▪ Richmond: Business activity slowed, and demand declined for temporary workers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
on a voluntary/part-time/temporary etc basis
▪ After a period of full-time child-care, many women return to paid employment on a part-time basis.
▪ Herrera ordered that this inhuman practice must cease and proposed to put recruiting on a voluntary basis.
▪ However, to date this exciting new technology has only adopted on a voluntary basis.
▪ Social responsibility is thus not merely a matter of the adoption of changed standards on a voluntary basis.
▪ The numbers are growing and the club is doing well, but more help is needed on a voluntary basis.
▪ There had developed since Khrushchev's time policies to involve the populace more in low-level administrative activities on a voluntary basis.
▪ This reduction was largely achieved on a voluntary basis, and our employees showed remarkable resilience and loyalty, despite such difficulties.
▪ This was often done on a temporary basis at first, but usually the fences became permanent hedges or walls.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ temporary housing
▪ Temporary shelters were hastily constructed as the refugees started to pour in.
▪ a temporary driver's license
▪ Because of damage to their homes, many people had to stay in temporary accommodation for a few months.
▪ Ben's found a temporary job until November.
▪ Demand for temporary workers continues to rise.
▪ France has agreed to a temporary suspension of military activities.
▪ I'm sure this is only a temporary problem.
▪ I've got a temporary secretarial job, but I'm hoping to find something more permanent.
▪ The doctor says the swelling is just temporary and should go down in a few days.
▪ There are always plenty of temporary workers available during the summer months.
▪ These arrangements are only intended to be temporary until an alternative is found.
▪ They're living in temporary accommodation at the moment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the summer of 1944 Burgess got a temporary job in the press department of the Foreign Office.
▪ It is estimated more than 2,000 people now sleep on London's streets and another 50,000 in various forms of temporary accommodation.
▪ It was supposed to be temporary, but we used it for many months.
▪ Police were not interested in her marriage certificate, her permit to leave home or her temporary residence card for Zhuhai.
▪ Pressing the F4 key creates an indented, temporary left margin.
▪ Seizures are only temporary, with little in the way of problems between them.