Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who works on a long-term basis without being treated as a permanent employee, especially one who agrees to a series of temporary contracts lacking the benefits of permanent employees.
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- noun An
employee whose official status is of atemporary , despite serving his or her function for sufficient time to be contracted aspermanent .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Psychologically, this "life of minus," as he calls it, is sapping the spirit of youth stuck in "permatemp" (permanently temporary) jobs, who expect to be poorer than their parents and grandparents.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Christopher Johnson 2009
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Psychologically, this "life of minus," as he calls it, is sapping the spirit of youth stuck in "permatemp" (permanently temporary) jobs, who expect to be poorer than their parents and grandparents.
News On Japan Globe & Mail 2009
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Psychologically, this "life of minus," as he calls it, is sapping the spirit of youth stuck in "permatemp" (permanently temporary) jobs, who expect to be poorer than their parents and grandparents.
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Maybe you need to work a soul-crushing permatemp call center or cube farm job somewhere so you can get some perspective and realize that being a college professor is not like breaking rocks for a living.
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Now grads are lucky to find permatemp positions in fading industries or to serve internships that are short on training and long on fetching and filing.
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Now grads are lucky to find permatemp positions in fading industries or to serve internships that are short on training and long on fetching and filing.
Why Your Cubicle Moonlights as a Therapist’s Couch Peter D. Kramer 2009
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When they lost the permatemp lawsuit, they created and enforcement a 12 month policy.
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Fred, first of all, someone with a PhD isn’t choosing between “tenure track faculty position” and “sales job” or “permatemp.”
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an inquiry on NPR's Facebook page seeking those who have chosen the permatemp work style and were willing to be interviewed.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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an inquiry on NPR's Facebook page seeking those who have chosen the permatemp work style and were willing to be interviewed.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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In 2000, Microsoft paid $97 million to settle a case brought by 8,000 “permatemps,” but, generally, tech giants still work to exclude as many people as possible from their full-time workforce.
This 'rater' gets paid $10 an hour to teach Google's algorithm — and he's not alone Alexandra Garfinkle 2022
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