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# temporarily

«temporarily» in Mova's school dictionary: **for a short time only, not for ever** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (temporarily)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Temporarily means for a short time only, not for ever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporarily/#m1)

2) Temporarily means for now, until something changes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporarily/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life signs say «temporarily closed» or «temporarily out of order», meaning it will open or work again later. In safety, a road may be temporarily shut. In science a change can be temporary (melting ice can freeze again). Opposite: permanently.

### examples

- The pool is temporarily closed for cleaning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporarily/#x1)
- The lift is temporarily out of order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporarily/#x2)
- We are temporarily living with my nan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporarily/#x3)
- The road was temporarily blocked by a fallen tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporarily/#x4)
- The power went off temporarily during the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporarily/#x5)
- She temporarily lost her voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporarily/#x6)
- The website is temporarily unavailable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporarily/#x7)

### note

Adverb from «temporary». Spelling trap: temporARily — many people miss the «ar». Opposite: permanently. It describes how long, not how much.

### In the corpora

- ["Temporarily embarrassed" is an old-fashioned joke meaning out of money for now.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «temporarily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporarily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.