adverb

• For a limited period of time; not permanently.

  ‘symptoms may disappear temporarily’

  More example sentences

  • ‘a temporarily vacant department store’
  • ‘Bus stops may have to be moved temporarily.’
  • ‘The service was temporarily suspended, but the problem has now been resolved.’
  • ‘Traffic was stopped temporarily for the parade.’
  • ‘You have to stay at a hotel temporarily.’
  • ‘He ended up going temporarily blind.’

  Synonyms

  for the time being, for the moment, for now, for the present, in the interim, for the nonce, for the meantime, in the meantime, in the meanwhile

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