The museum's temporary exhibition of ancient pottery drew record crowds before the artifacts were returned to their permanent galleries.
博物馆的临时古代陶器展览在文物归还永久展厅前吸引了创纪录的观众。
Economist Daniel Voss contends that current vacancy rates reflect a temporary adjustment period, and that as leases expire and companies redesign offices for hybrid collaboration, downtown demand will largely recover.
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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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Which choice best defines “temporary”?
B — Lasting for a limited time. “temporary” means lasting for a limited time.
Which word means “lasting for a limited time”?
C — temporary. “temporary” means lasting for a limited time.
temporary — lasting for a limited time. In Chinese: 临时的.
temporary is pronounced /ˈtɛmpəˌrɛri/.
The museum's temporary exhibition of ancient pottery drew record crowds before the artifacts were returned to their permanent galleries. (博物馆的临时古代陶器展览在文物归还永久展厅前吸引了创纪录的观众。)
transient, provisional, short-lived — all close in meaning to temporary (lasting for a limited time).
permanent, lasting — each the opposite of temporary (lasting for a limited time).
Yes. temporary 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.