temporary help
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftemporaryandhelp
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temporary
adjective
uk/ˈtem.pər.ər.i/us/ˈtem.pə.rer.i/
not lasting or needed for ...
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help
noun
uk/help/us/help/
the act of helping ...
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(Definition oftemporaryandhelpfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Between 1972 and 1997 employment in thetemporaryhelpsector grew five times as rapidly as overall non-farm employment.
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We need onlytemporaryhelp.
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Most important is the fact that it is atemporaryhelp.
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Temporaryhelpcan be useful, but it must not drift into permanence.
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Some of these people are in need oftemporaryhelp, and they are fairly easy problems.
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Or is one supposed to pay two or three months' secretarial pay fortemporaryhelpout of one's salary while one's secretary is ill?
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There are numerous naval and general services charitable organisations to which the widows of naval officers may apply for further income ortemporaryhelp.
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Clause 1 provides for an advance to raise the price of butter as atemporaryhelpin a time of emergency.
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To suggest that they be postponed until 1982–83 would be a little help—atemporaryhelp—but it would be no lasting solution to the problem.
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If we are giving arable farmerstemporaryhelp, and in the meantime we make a survey of the whole position regarding wheat, what do we find?
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Giventemporaryhelp, coal should be efficient enough to compete on national terms with its rivals, and sell about 200 millions a year on its commercial merits.
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The organisation maintains 30 stationary centres of rehabilitation, and 28 points oftemporaryhelpfor drug and alcohol addicts.
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In 1973, the financial community posted a collective loss of $245 million, which spurredtemporaryhelpfrom the government.
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I would not want it primarily as a means of easing our unemployment problem, although, no doubt, it would offer some help, but it would, of course, betemporaryhelp.
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It must take advantage of thetemporaryhelpthat has been given, to ensure that a situation that it ought to be able to put right, is put right.
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Certain immediate andtemporaryhelpcan also be promised in the matter of a grant-in-aid for the next financial year and assistance towards meeting the cost of commodity subsidies.
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He must have been in attendance on other duties and assembled a nine-man team to provide sometemporaryhelpfor the two regular ushers.
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