temporaries
- 1Plural of temporary.
The warehouse brought in dozens of temporaries to handle the seasonal surge in orders.
Several temporaries were offered permanent contracts after proving themselves.
Note
A regular plural that turns the final y into -ies, as secretaries and dictionaries do. It serves both nouns behind it: the short-term staff an office or warehouse takes on for a season, and, in programming, the short-lived variables that hold intermediate results. The adjective has no plural. Temporary workers and temporaries name the same people, but only the noun can stand alone.
temporaries is a form of temporary
temporary, noun: A worker employed for a limited time, especially someone filling a short-term office role. Full entry
- Forms
- temporarytemporaries plural
- Spelling
- temporary → temporaries: change y to i, add -es
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