temporary inconvenience
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftemporaryandinconvenience
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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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inconvenience
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌɪn.kənˈviː.ni.əns/us/ˌɪn.kənˈviːn.jəns/
a state or an example of problems or trouble, often causing a delay or loss ...
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(Definition oftemporaryandinconveniencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Redundancy may be for some only atemporaryinconvenience, while for others it can be a social upheaval and even cause distress and misery.
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Certainly the need to keep our people at work far outweighs anytemporaryinconvenience.
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The period of 48 hours rest is prescribed in order to minimise thetemporaryinconveniencecaused by inoculation.
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The surgeon and his patient appreciate and accept that a certain amount oftemporaryinconvenienceand pain are necessary for a cure.
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There have been complaints about overcrowding on this ship, but orders have been given which will remove thistemporaryinconvenience.
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I regret anytemporaryinconveniencewhich may be caused by the alteration.
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That could be replaced by a bus; but it was of greattemporaryinconvenience.
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This work has unfortunately caused some unavoidabletemporaryinconvenience.
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He would only suffer this onetemporaryinconvenience; he would not be disenfranchised for ever.
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If this prove impossible, then the employers must be asked, in the public interest, to accept thetemporaryinconvenienceof a reduced supply of labour.
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But when you have effected thattemporaryinconveniencethat is the utmost you can do by maintaining this principle.
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I must say quite plainly that as we go on with the new measures of road construction they will cause sometemporaryinconvenienceto motorists.
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I am aware of the traffic conditions on this road, but if improvements are to be made sometemporaryinconveniencemust be accepted.
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Anytemporaryinconvenienceis caused by the number and situation of separate courts that have to be served.
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The moment we are advised that there would be any serious danger, or permanent danger to health, and anything more thantemporaryinconvenience, the practice of forcible feeding is discontinued.
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Surely these considerations must utterly outweigh thetemporaryinconvenienceto those industries in which the quantity and not the quality of the labour is of primary importance.
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I am sure both the building trade and the community will profit in the long run by even thattemporaryinconveniencewhich has been caused in such cases.
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The wounds were generally not that serious, wounds causing, as a rule, buttemporaryinconvenienceand leaving in their traces a perpetual witness of a fight well fought.
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While there may well be temporary inconveniences for us, there should be no insuperable problem.
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Such a national effort would call for temporary inconveniences, perhaps for some loss of leisure, but not for loss of necessities.
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