temporary worker

collocation in English

meaningsoftemporaryandworker

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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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worker
noun[C]
uk
/ˈwɜː.kər/us
/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition oftemporaryandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftemporary worker

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The employer takes atemporaryworkerfrom an employment agency for that period.
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If you as atemporaryworkerdare to question the conditions in which you find yourself, you may actually find that you are never employed by that particular company again.
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A company might cease the temp contract early and take the person on as atemporaryworker, working directly for the company.
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I confess to a certain puzzlement over the arrangements for women leaving employment as a result of pregnancy, and over the position in which thetemporaryworkerwill be placed.
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Now, the salary of atemporaryworkerwould have to be assessed according to the scale of salaries in the temporary employment agency.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Agencies should get some sort of recompense if thetemporaryworkeris taken on by the user company.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Gingrich supports an expandedtemporaryworkerprogram, with a special open-ended visa for high value workers.
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Therefore, bujejo could mean someone in emeritus ortemporaryworker.
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After leaving school, he worked as a broom-seller,temporaryworkerin many different positions and archivist.
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For atemporaryworkerposted in another country from her home country, article 8(2) makes the law of the home country apply.
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As temporary workers they could learn their tasks and adapt to the demands of work discipline.
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He has also proposed streamlining thetemporaryworkervisa issuance system so that temporary agricultural and tourism workers could be processed more efficiently.
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She signed a newtemporaryworkeragreement.
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In this sense, it could be argued that it would be easier to find work as atemporaryworker.
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In this paradigm, the idea of thetemporaryworkeras a stopgap solution to permanent labor became an entirely normative employment alternative to permanent work.
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These sectors currently have little union coverage since many part-time or temporary workers are reluctant to join unions because of dues or other considerations.
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The operation of the farm is mostly done by family labour and a very few of them occasionally hire temporary workers.
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A dramatic growth in the number of provident funds led to worries concerning the viability of the small plant-based provident funds and a lack of coverage for temporary workers.
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They also would have undermined union membership by making it easier to hire short-term and temporary workers, which are notoriously difficult to organise.
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