temp
/tɛmp/
US pronunciation
American sound/tɛmp/
temp
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- ‘And hiring through a temp agency doesn't protect you from litigation.’
- ‘I then started work at Deep Sea World as an office temp, initially for three weeks.’
- ‘Agency temps have the lowest rates of all employment categories.’
- ‘We are giving young temp workers a platform to express their unheard voices.’
- ‘There were about thirty of us - cleaners, security guards, post room employees and temps.’
- ‘So we hired a temp from this agency that supposedly specializes in temps who respect diversity and can handle working in places like ours.’
- ‘I was going for an interview with a temp agency, and I'd just typed up my resume, including my work history.’
- ‘But an office full of temps contains all manner of other, hidden costs.’
- ‘The next day, he finds Kris as his new personal temp.’
- ‘Anna, 21 and a single mother of two, was working as a temp at a nursing agency when she signed up for benefits.’
- ‘After failing to land a job as a journalist, and brief stints as an office temp and clerk typist, Bass was demoralized and returned to North Carolina.’
- ‘Past employment as an in-house temp or other is also statistically significant in predicting a lower probability of home ownership.’
- ‘She registered with a temp agency, determined to land a position in development.’
- ‘I'd highly recommend signing up with a few temp agencies.’
- ‘Three employees and a temp are thought to have been evacuated but cannot be located by the company.’
- ‘And since the agency pays the temp, you don't have to concern yourself with rising costs of unemployment rates or with payroll deductions.’
- ‘Keep all your tickets and passes in the envelope they came in, and let the appropriate temp employees sort through it as needed.’
- ‘For a brief time, a few years ago, I was employed as a temp at the Public Trust Office, one of the grey government monoliths that no one notices in Central London.’
- ‘The employment conditions for the temps - who have to wear orange badges to distinguish them from blue-badged permanent employees - are strikingly different.’
- ‘In July, the company said it had 70 permanent employees and 30 temps.’
Synonyms
temporary worker, office temporary, fill-in, stand-in, temporary secretary, Band-Aid, abettor, accessory, accomplice, acting, ad hoc, ad interim, adherent, adjunct, adjutant, agent, aid, aide, ally, alternate, alternative, appointee, apprentice, assistant, associate, attendant, auxiliary, backer, backup, brief, changeable, changeling, coadjutant, coadjutor, collaborator, colleague, companion, confederate, cooperator, delegate, deputy, dernier ressort, do temporary work, double, dummy, emergency, ephemeral, equivalent, evanescent, expediency, expedient, fellow worker, fill in, fleeting, flunky, follower, for the time being, friend, fugacious, fugitive, gal Friday, ghost, ghost writer, girl Friday, gofer, help, helper, helpmate, henchman, hit-or-miss, impermanent, impromptu, improvised, interim, limited, locum, locum tenens, make-do, makeshift, man Friday, mate, momentary, mortal, overnight, paraprofessional, partner, passing, patron, peon, perishable, pinch hitter, pinch-hitter, practical, pro tem, pro tempore, procurator, provisional, provisory, proxy, quick-and-dirty, recourse, refuge, relay, relief, reliever, replacement, representative, reserve, resort, resource, right-hand man/woman, right-hand person, rough-and-ready, rough-and-tumble, second, secretary, servant, shifting, short, short-lived, short-range, short-term, slapdash, stalwart, stand in, standby, stopgap, sub, subordinate, substitute, succedaneum, successor, succorer, summary, supplanter, supply, supporter, surrogate, symbol, tactical, temporarily helping, temporary, temporary expedient, throwaway, transient, transitory, understudy, unfixed, unstable, vicar, volatile
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