Synonyms for meantime
ˈminˌtaɪmmean·time

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1. interim, meantime, meanwhile, lagadverb

   the time between one event, process, or period and another

   "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"

   Synonyms:
   interim, stave, slowdown, lag, retardation, meanwhile

2. meanwhile, meantime, in the meantimeadverb

   during the intervening time

   "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified"

   Synonyms:
   meanwhile, in the meantime

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1. meantimeadjective

   Synonyms:
   in the mean time, in the interim

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1. meantimeadverb

   Synonyms:
   meanwhile

2. meantimenoun

   Synonyms:
   interval, interim, meanwhile

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1. List of paraphrases for "meantime":

   interval, meanwhile, time, range, interim, waiting

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1. Massimo Bottura:

   Since I was a kid I was Massimo Bottura -- I was escaping from my older brother under the table in the kitchen and from down there, where my grandmother was defending me, in the meantime she was rolling pasta, i was looking at the world from another point of view. It's what we do in Osteria Francescana every day.

2. Joachim Herrmann:

   In the meantime a text in Pashto was also found that was partly written in Arabic characters and partly in Latin characters, which indicates that this could be someone who has self-radicalised recently.

3. President Obama:

   As we have more information, we'll let the public know, but in the meantime I'd ask all Americans to pray for the families who are grief stricken at this point, and I want everybody to understand we will be thorough and prompt in figuring out exactly what happened.

4. Robert Durst:

   But in the meantime, if you bought a building and there was an adult bookstore there that had a 10-year lease, you found yourself owning an adult bookstore.

5. Dave Heller:

   That type of scorched earth policy is going to destroy conservative talk in Florida in the meantime, i work for a privately owned broadcasting group that will not be able to afford a barrage of lawsuits before we wait for it to go before the Supreme Court.