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semipermanent

[ sem-ee-pur-muh-nuhnt, sem-ahy- ]

adjective

  1. not quite permanent.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of semipermanent1

First recorded in 1885–90; semi- + permanent
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Example Sentences

You will receive payments on a semipermanent or permanent basis, which is dependent on the extent of the injuries that you suffered.

Park rangers and sanitation crews clear them away, but they return, and some have managed to become semipermanent.

It’s nothing much at all, simply a kind of semipermanent Wednesday of the soul, a spirit-flattening acceptance of stasis and complacency.

But most of the tents, as well as some semipermanent structures, remained in the northern section.

What was once an isolated, stable society cloaked in semipermanent darkness has been thrust to the forefront of Arctic change by rapid warming and the interests that warming precipitates.

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