temporary work
Limited duration job
Temporary work is employment arranged for a limited period rather than ongoing.
Workers may be hired directly for short-term projects or placed through staffing agencies.
She did temporary work while looking for a permanent position.
The shortened form temp functions as noun, verb, and adjective: a temp, temping at law firms, a temp job.
- casual laborIrregular, non-permanent employment
- freelanceSelf-employed project work
- short-termOf limited duration
- fixed termDuration with preset endpoint
- zero-hour contractsJobs without guaranteed hours
locum · interim · temp job · gig · gig economy · contract · contract worker · seasonal · contingent · moonlighting · provisional · temping · trial period · project-based · temp agency · portfolio career · between jobs · placeholder
- side workside job, side jobs, side hustle, side gigs, side hustles
- self-employmentself-employed, freelancing, self-employment, sole proprietorship, sole proprietor
- work arrangementsjob sharing, part-time, full-time, flextime, freelance
- employmentjob, jobs, career, careers, interview
- labourmanual labour, forced labour, child labour, labourer, toil
- unemploymentunemployment, unemployed, jobless, joblessness, unemployment rate
temporary workpermanent employment
Ongoing work with no termination date
permanent position · open-ended contract · lifetime employment · standing position
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