Employee and Temp

Employee

Employee noun - One who works for another for wages or a salary.
Usage example: an employer who was loved and admired by generations of employees

Temp and employee are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Temp" instead a noun "Employee".

Temp

Temp noun - A worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis.

Employee and temp are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Employee" instead a noun "Temp".

Nearby Words: temped, temping

Both words in one sentence

  • Comicbook / Gotham Central As such, only Stacy, the secretary of the MCU who is technically a temp and not a city employee at all, is allowed to turn on the signalnote Of course, Law and the Multiverse has since debunked this explanation, so back to square one.
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power Donna Noble doesn't even have a permanent job—she's a "temp," or employee hired on a daily basis to fill in for absent workers—but her knowledge of office life is incredibly useful, not to mention her ability to quickly figure out how new-to-her workplaces function.
  • Tap on the Head Forrester "convinced" temp employee Mike Nelson to join the bots on the Satellite of Love, as shown in the intro.
Cite this Source
Temp and Employee. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/employee/temp
Employee & Temp. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/employee/temp>.
Temp or Employee. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/employee/temp.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "employee" and "temp" have occurred on timeline