The construction work temporarily closed the main bridge, forcing commuters to take a longer detour for two weeks.
施工工作暂时关闭了主桥，迫使通勤者绕行更长的路线两周。
When a popular ride-sharing app temporarily suspended service in a mid-sized city due to a technical outage, local taxi companies reported a spike in calls during the outage, but call volumes returned to pre-outage levels within a day of the app's service being restored.
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When a popular food-delivery app temporarily raised its delivery fees, orders from independent local restaurants on the app dropped sharply, but orders from large chain restaurants on the same app remained roughly steady.
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When a popular music streaming app temporarily removed its offline-download feature, subscriptions to a competing app with offline capability rose noticeably, but overall subscriptions to the original app remained roughly stable once the feature was restored a month later.
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Which choice best defines “temporarily”?
D — For a short time. “temporarily” means for a short time.
Which word means “for a short time”?
C — temporarily. “temporarily” means for a short time.
temporarily — for a short time. In Chinese: 暂时地.
temporarily is pronounced /ˌtɛmpəˈrɛrəli/.
The construction work temporarily closed the main bridge, forcing commuters to take a longer detour for two weeks. (施工工作暂时关闭了主桥，迫使通勤者绕行更长的路线两周。)
briefly, momentarily, transiently — all close in meaning to temporarily (for a short time).
permanently, indefinitely — each the opposite of temporarily (for a short time).
Yes. temporarily is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.