Synonyms

temporarily

American

[tem-puh-rair-uh-lee, tem-puh-rer-] / ˌtɛm pəˈrɛər ə li, ˈtɛm pəˌrɛr- /

adverb

only for a while or for the time being; not permanently.

The website you were trying to reach is temporarily unavailable.

Other Word Forms

nontemporarily adverb

Etymology

Origin of temporarily

temporary ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

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MarketWatch reached out to a number of major corporations, asking if they have temporarily modified their office attendance policies.

From MarketWatch

Using a laser, the team temporarily made proteins invisible in a strip at the back of a living cell to track how they moved.

From Science Daily

Wong Kim Ark “concerned children of aliens with a lawful domicile in the United States, not children of temporarily present aliens or illegal aliens.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Its Isbergues site in France would now be closed from June to September, and the steel division production in Gelsenkirchen, Germany had already been temporarily shut, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal

On 23 March, the government temporarily removed fare caps, giving airlines the freedom to raise prices as the cost of fuel jumps.

From BBC

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