transiency
- noun
- /ˈtrænsiənsi/
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transitoriedad
- By 1920, stable jobs in hotels, with women as chambermaids and men as waiters, cooks, porters, and janitors, challenged the railroad, with its emphasis on transiency, as the major source of employment.
Examples
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However, critics of increased adjunct faculty ask whether the transiency of adjunct faculty positions makes such faculty less inclined to spend time preparing lesson plans, grading papers, and exams for courses that they may never teach again (Bowles 1982).
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Now, the transiency of life.
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But the social distance between transiency and permanent residence was easily measurable and significant.
Academic text (1998) -
Where the larger society tolerated them, even encouraged them in the transiency of studenthood, it did not welcome them as permanent residents.
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Many schools with low academic achievement scores, low attendance rates, and high transiency percentages have high rates of students eligible for free or reduced lunches, which researchers frequently use as a poverty indicator.
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Although the transiency of adjunct instructors would make them less likely to invest a large amount of time preparing lesson plans, grading papers, and exams for courses they may never teach again, the percentage distributions of some classroom assessments mentioned above were similar to full-time instructors.
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The transiency of summer vacations makes them feel even more special each year.
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Her memories of childhood capture the transiency of those carefree days.
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The artist's work often reflects the transiency of beauty and life.
Synonyms
4
8.2
A state of not lasting forever and likely to change
2
8.1
A short time before something changes or ends
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3.5
A situation that lasts only for a short time
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8.2
A short time that passes quickly
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8.9
A state of lasting only a short time, like a rainbow
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9.2
The fact that something lasts only a short time
A temporary condition that does not last forever
A state of lasting only a short time
The state of lasting only a short time
Antonyms
How Temporary
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Transiency comes from Latin parts trans- 'across' and ire 'to go', so it originally meant 'going across' or 'passing by'. You can see the same root in transit, so transiency means the state of being short-lived or quickly passing.