temporary
/ˈtɛm.pəˌɹɛɹ.i/ sustantivo C2En español: temporero, temporal
- One serving for a limited time; a short-term employee, especially in an office.
- A short-term variable used to store an intermediate result.
Plural temporaries
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Some days after this meeting, Albert de Morcerf visited the Count of Monte Cristo at his house in the Champs-Élysées, which had already assumed that palace-like appearance which the count’s princely fortune enabled him to give even to his most temporary residences.
Now, by way of having a resting-place during his excursions, avoiding the wretched cookery—which has been trying its best to poison me during the last four months, while you have manfully resisted its effects for as many years,—and obtaining a bed on which it is possible to slumber, Monte Cristo has furnished for himself a temporary abode where you first found him; but, to prevent the possibility of the Tuscan government taking a fancy to his enchanted palace, and thereby depriving him of the advantages naturally expected from so large an outlay of capital, he has wisely enough purchased the island, and taken its name.
“I want none; it was a temporary indisposition.
He was a solicitor and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new premises were ready.
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