Temporary vs Temporize - What's the difference?
temporary | temporize |
Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.
One serving for a limited time; short-term employee.
To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes in order to reach a compromise or simply to make a conversation more temperate.
(obsolete) To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
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(obsolete) To delay; to procrastinate.
(obsolete) To comply; to agree.
As an adjective temporary
is not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.As a noun temporary
is one serving for a limited time; short-term employee.As a verb temporize is
to deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes in order to reach a compromise or simply to make a conversation more temperate.temporary
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* temptemporize
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- They might their grievance inwardly complain, But outwardly they needs must temporize .
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Shakespeare)