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pro tem

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pro tem  (pr tm)
adv.
Pro tempore.
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Adj.1.pro tem - for the time being; "he is the president pro tem"; "designated him to act as consul protempore"- H.H.Fiske
pro tempore
impermanent, temporary - not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing"
Adv.1.pro tem - for the time being; temporarily; "accepting pro tem that hypothesis consistent with the facts"- J.W.Krutch
pro tempore
Translations
pro tem [prəuˈtɛm] adv abbr (= pro tempore: for the time being) → provisionalmente
pro tem [prəuˈtɛm] adv abbr (= pro tempore: for the time being) → provisoirement
pro tem [prəuˈtɛm] adv abbr (= pro tempore) → vorläufig
pro tem [prəuˈtɛm] adv abbr (= for the time being) (= pro tempore ) → pro tempore


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An historian, for example, having attained the age of five hundred, would write a book with great labor and then get himself carefully embalmed; leaving instructions to his executors pro tem.
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