temporarily

English

Etymology

From temporary +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛmpəˈɹɛɹəli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)ɪli/, /ˌtɛmp(ə)ˈrɛrɪli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adverb

temporarily (not comparable)

1. For a limited period of time; not permanently.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 52:

     Necromancers were thought to have the power of restoring activity to the dead, either temporarily or permanently[.]

   • 1975 April 13, “Late President funeral service set for April 16”, in Free China Weekly‎^[1], volume XVI, number 14, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 1:

     The committee also decided that the remains of President Chiang will be entombed temporarily by Tzu Lake, at Tahsi township of Taoyuan County in northern Taiwan, and will be buried on the mainland after it is recovered.

   • 2021 April 27, Daniel Dale, “New York Post temporarily deletes, then edits false story that claimed Harris’ book was given out in migrant ‘welcome kits’”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     The New York Post also temporarily took down and then revised and republished an article about the Fox reporter’s exchange with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday.

Synonyms

• ephemerally, fleetingly, transiently; see also Thesaurus:temporarily

Derived terms

• temporarily able-bodied
• temporarily embarrassed millionaire

Translations

for a limited period of time

• Arabic: مُؤَقَّتًا (muʔaqqatan)
• Armenian: ժամանակավորապես (hy) (žamanakavorapes)
• Belarusian: тымчасо́ва (tymčasóva), часо́ва (časóva)
• Bulgarian: вре́менно (bg) (vrémenno)
• Catalan: temporalment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暫時地 / 暂时地 (zànshí de), 臨時地 / 临时地 (línshí de)

• Czech: dočasně (cs)
• Danish: foreløbigt, midlertidigt
• Esperanto: provizore
• Finnish: väliaikaisesti (fi), tilapäisesti (fi)
• French: temporairement (fr), provisoirement (fr)
• Galician: temporalmente (gl)
• Georgian: დროებითად (droebitad), დროებით (droebit)
• German: vorübergehend (de)
• Greek: προσωρινά (el) (prosoriná), πρόσκαιρα (el) (próskaira)
• Hungarian: ideiglenesen (hu), átmenetileg (hu)
• Italian: temporaneamente (it)
• Japanese: 暫く (ja) (shibaraku), 一時的に (ja) (ichijiteki ni)
• Persian: موقتاً (fa) (movaqqatan)
• Polish: tymczasowo (pl)
• Portuguese: temporariamente (pt)
• Russian: вре́менно (ru) (vrémenno)
• Slovak: dočasne
• Spanish: temporalmente (es)
• Turkish: eğreti olarak, geçici olarak, idareten (tr), muvakkaten (tr) (archaic)
• Ukrainian: тимчасо́во (tymčasóvo)
• Welsh: dros dro (cy)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} přechodně (cs), provizorně
• Danish: ^{(please verify)} midlertidigt, forbigående
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} tijdelijk (nl)
• German: ^{(please verify)} temporär (de), zeitweise (de)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} nem véglegesen
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} temporaneamente (it)
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} laikinai (1,2), ^{(please verify)} ne nuolat (2)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} temporärt (sv), ^{(please verify)} tillfälligt (sv), ^{(please verify)} för tillfället (sv)

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