Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The time between one occurrence and another; an interval.
- adverb During a period of intervening time; meanwhile.
from The Century Dictionary.
- During the interval; in the interval between one specified period and another.
- noun The interval between one specified period and another: only in the phrase in the meantime, formerly also
the meantime : properly two words (in the mean time), conventionally written as one, after the adverb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The intervening time.
- adverb In the intervening time; during the interval.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
time spentwaiting for another event; time inbetween . - adverb
during theinterval ;meanwhile
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the time between one event, process, or period and another
- adverb during the intervening time
Etymologies
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Examples
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Al, in the meantime, is clearly suffering badly in a trolling environment that has been dominated in recent weeks by “Ed”.
Matthew Yglesias » More Failure for Obama’s Law Enforcement Approach to Terrorism 2010
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Hades in the meantime is furious and very frustrated with his lack of progress until he finds the only weakness Hercules has – his love for Meg.
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Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso in the meantime is worried that a low turnout in the elections for the European Parliament next week will undermine the credibility of the European Union in general and the parliament in particular.
Brussels bulletin 2009
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In the meantime, is all this crap from turdblossom being cataloged somewhere?
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(Dobleman, in the meantime, is telephoning in a low voice.)
THEFT 2010
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Here, meantime, is Boz's column, wherein my esteemed colleague demonstrates how pointless it is to attempt to predict baseball's playoffs.
Postseason predictions -- or, as Boz calls it, 'sheer folly' Dave Sheinin 2010
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He has constantly lied to his base and in the meantime is trying for a massive government takeover of the economy while all his actions on economics have done nothing but prolong the recession, devalue the dollar, and raise unemployment.
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Wait next year, and in meantime, better look for another job.
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And in the meantime, is there nothing to be done for the illness?
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Rosvet, in the meantime, is monitoring the implementation of the widely advertised government program called “Dorozhnaia karta” (“Road Map”) [ru]:
Global Voices in English » Kazakhstan: On the Efficacy of Government 2009
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