temp
noun
[ tɛmp ]
• a temporary employee, typically an office worker who finds employment through an agency.
temp
verb
• work as a temporary employee.
• "Suzanne was temping as a secretary"
Origin:
1930s (originally US): abbreviation.
temp
abbreviation
• temperature.
• "went swimming—temp 73 degrees!"
temp.
abbreviation
• in or from the time of.
• "a Roman aqueduct temp. Augustus"
Origin:
from Latin tempore, ablative of tempus ‘time’.
