temporarily

[tem-puh-rair-uh-lee, tem-puh-rer-]

adverb

1. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of temporarily¹

temporary ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

On Thursday, the US embassy in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou announced on its website that it would temporarily pause issuing immigrant, tourist, student and business traveller visas.

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Grenada's foreign ministry has said it is reviewing a US government request to temporarily install radar equipment and technical personnel at its airport.

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As I told this reader, working while claiming benefits can also reduce what you get each month, at least temporarily, until you reach FRA.

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Now Vought has proposed using the current government shutdown as an opportunity to fire thousands of bureaucrats permanently instead of merely furloughing them temporarily.

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The company is set to fire up a new gas-burning power plant that will largely replace the generation lost from Tihange, boosting Belgium’s greenhouse gas emissions, at least temporarily.

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Related Words

• briefly