meantime

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  1. noun The time between one occurrence and another; an interval.
  2. adverb During a period of intervening time; meanwhile.

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  • Juana meantime was also chattering to Charles, perhaps saying the same thing in Spanish. —  Mary Balogh - A Masked Deception
  • In the meantime, the name of the game in the Arab world remains demagogy, irrationalism, political schizophrenia, defiance and violence. —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
  • In the meantime, the Everest label survived under Bernard Solomon, who bought the masters from Belock in 1961, and became a budget label, producing some low quality pressings and including some dubious source material. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • "If we can only manage to hold on for a year or two, we shall be sure to succeed, for there can be no question that the tide of immigration is beginning to set in this direction, but it does not flow fast, and our great difficulty in the meantime will be the want of ready cash Act in haste and repent at leisure," said Ian One can scarcely be said to act in haste," retorted his father, "who is almost forced into a course of action. —  Wrecked but not Ruined
  • For the meantime, my Lieutenant General [Leicester] shall be in my stead, than whom never prince commanded a more noble nor worthy subject. —  Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada
 

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  1. An ellipsis of in the mean time: see mean, a., 3.
 

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