temporary solution
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftemporaryandsolution
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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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solution
noun
uk/səˈluː.ʃən/us/səˈluː.ʃən/
the answer to ...
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(Definition oftemporaryandsolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus, traditional homecare can be at best only atemporarysolutionto our healthcare economic crisis.
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Still, for many of them estate work provided a way out, atemporarysolutionand often last resource in periods of personal problems, unemployment and/or food shortages.
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While this is appropriate in a rigorous sense for alternating series, it is atemporarysolutionfor monotone series such as those that are being considered here.
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It is really important in all questions to do with agriculture, that we create atemporarysolution.
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He said that it is atemporarysolution.
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We are fully aware of the fact that this is only atemporarysolution.
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Nothing is so permanent as atemporarysolution.
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We shall sow the seed of future trouble, in order to purchase atemporarysolutionof our difficulties.
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It would prove atemporarysolutionat best.
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But of course that is only atemporarysolution.
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The argument that it is atemporarysolutionto a permanent problem turns upon itself and is not valid.
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I would offer atemporarysolutionhere and now.
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It may be argued that whereas one is seeking atemporarysolutionvery often the houseman is also a temporary appointment.
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Do they wish to impose a so-calledtemporarysolutionon the hapless people of this country for an indefinite period?
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One is the question of the by-elections, which have been postponed and postponed pending sometemporarysolution.
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It is no good reaching atemporarysolution, patching it up and hoping it will last for five or ten years.
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This will provide atemporarysolutionunder the existing discredited system while the new long-term proposals are being developed.
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We therefore cannot accept the current situation which is either failure or half-measures such as the moratorium, even though this half-measure provides atemporarysolution.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Indeed, placing the child in an institution ought to be used simply as atemporarysolution.
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That is the way in which you get yourtemporarysolution.
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