temporary replacement

collocation in English

meaningsoftemporaryandreplacement

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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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replacement
noun
uk
/rɪˈpleɪs.mənt/us
/rɪˈpleɪs.mənt/
the process of replacing something with ...
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(Definition oftemporaryandreplacementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The employer will also be protected against a complaint of unfair dismissal if he dismisses atemporaryreplacement, when the employee returns.
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The traffic area office has since arranged atemporaryreplacementexaminer.
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I understand that it is hoped soon to provide onetemporaryreplacementoperating theatre on a rental basis.
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I should stress that we are talking abouttemporaryreplacement.
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Nobody has mentioned the problem of thetemporaryreplacement, but he or she needs some earlier notification than is at present given.
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For example, these might be the permanent ortemporaryreplacementof forests by farmland, the relatively low profitability of forest maintenance compared with other land use and, quite simply, poverty.
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The development of high-quality education is a key factor for improving the quality of care, as aretemporaryreplacementcare and special leave for employees who look after family members.
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However, the real problem in such cases is the loss of production allied to the difficulty and expense of finding atemporaryreplacementfor sick workers.
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If a woman is on maternity leave and an employer appoints atemporaryreplacement, costs have been incurred, and increasing the period to 18 weeks would make virtually no difference.
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If it is impossible to obtain atemporaryreplacement, obviously that is a situation where it is only practicable for the employer to take on a permanent replacement.
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Bain'stemporaryreplacement, whose appointment was announced last week, has said that the organisation is now in a "perilous state", and that the business model does not work.
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This collapsed in 1808, and a wooden trough was used as atemporaryreplacement.
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Following concerns for its safety, a so-calledtemporaryreplacementbridge was built between 1930 and 1932.
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Atemporaryreplacementantenna was suspended between two 120 metres high masts.
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By the next day, the mill was operated by 1,800 salaried andtemporaryreplacementworkers.
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The decision to add biweekly updates continuing the overarching story was made as atemporaryreplacementto a retail expansion.
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The prefabricated structure was intended to be atemporaryreplacementfor a tent camping accommodation.
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As well as atemporaryreplacementif the hetman's office became vacant, because of death, abdication, or deposition.
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Histemporaryreplacementwas a noncommissioned officer.
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Kamov was forced to consider foreign analogues as atemporaryreplacementfor domestic imaging systems because of their slow development.
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