temporary (n.)
- acting
- alternate
- alternative
- backup
- breadwinner
- brittle
- counterfeit
- dummy
- dying
- employee
- ephemeral
- equivalent
- ersatz
- fading
- fake
- flunky
- fly-by-night
- flying
- frail
- fugitive
- hand
- imitation
- interim
- jobber
- jobholder
- laborer
- make-do
- makeshift
- menial
- migrant
- mock
- mortal
- navvy
- passing
- perilous
- perishable
- phony
- pinch
- proletarian
- proxy
- reserve
- roustabout
- secondary
- servant
- shifting
- spare
- stiff
- stopgap
- substitute
- supply
- temporal
- toiler
- token
- transient
- transitive
- utility
- volatile
- worker
- workingman
- workman
temporary (adj.)
- acting
- alternate
- alternative
- brittle
- capricious
- casual
- changeable
- corruptible
- counterfeit
- dangerous
- deciduous
- desultory
- dummy
- dying
- ephemeral
- equivalent
- ersatz
- evanescent
- fading
- fake
- fickle
- fleeting
- fly-by-night
- flying
- fragile
- frail
- fugacious
- fugitive
- hand
- hazardous
- imitation
- impermanent
- impetuous
- improvised
- impulsive
- inconstant
- infirm
- insecure
- insubstantial
- interim
- jury-rigged
- makeshift
- menial
- migrant
- mock
- momentary
- mortal
- mutable
- passing
- perilous
- perishable
- phony
- precarious
- proletarian
- provisional
- provisory
- risky
- secondary
- servant
- shaky
- shifting
- shifty
- short-lived
- slippery
- spare
- stiff
- substitute
- temporal
- tentative
- ticklish
- token
- transient
- transitive
- transitory
- treacherous
- undependable
- unreliable
- unsound
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsubstantial
- unsure
- untrustworthy
- utility
- vicarious
- volatile
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
