pro tem
Filling in briefly
Pro tem is short for the Latin pro tempore, meaning "for the time being." It describes someone serving temporarily in a position, usually until a permanent replacement is found or an absent official returns: The vice president served as chair pro tem during the meeting.
Common in parliamentary and academic contexts: president pro tem, mayor pro tem.
Temporarily holding position
- substituteReplacement for another
- stand-inTemporary human placeholder
- fill-inTemporary substitute person
- caretakerOne who maintains property
placeholder · deputy · stopgap · provisional · short-term · transitional · appointed · designated
Created without prior planning
- ad hocFor this purpose specifically
- jury-riggedTemporarily fixed with scraps
- cobbledSurfaced with rounded stones
- band-aidAdhesive strip for cuts
stopgap · expedient · rough-and-ready · thrown-together · kludge · patched · informal · unofficial
acting
Temporarily holding position
- substituteReplacement for another
- stand-inTemporary human placeholder
- fill-inTemporary substitute person
caretaker · placeholder · deputy · stopgap · provisional · short-term · transitional · appointed · designated · serving
improvised
Created without prior planning
- ad hocFor this purpose specifically
- jury-riggedTemporarily fixed with scraps
- cobbledSurfaced with rounded stones
band-aid · stopgap · expedient · rough-and-ready · thrown-together · kludge · patched · informal · unofficial · emergency
- Temporarilybriefly, for now, meanwhile, for the time being, in the meantime
- temporarytemp job, interim, temp worker, provisional, stopgap
- temporary rolestemp, temp worker, internship, substitute, interim
- Latin Abbreviationse.g., i.e., etc, et al, ibid
- Legislative LeadersSpeaker of the House, Senate leader, majority leader, minority leader, majority whip
- backupsbackup copy, backup file, backup drive, backup system, backup generator
temporary, tempo, temporal, temporarily, contemporary, temporize, extemporaneous, contemporaneous, temporality