Synonyms for meanwhile
ˈminˌʰwaɪl, -ˌwaɪlmean·while

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1. meanwhileadverb

   Synonyms:
   meanwhilst, the while, in the meantime, meantime

2. meanwhileadverb

   During the time (that something is happening).

   Synonyms:
   in the meantime, meantime, the while, meanwhilst

3. meanwhileadverb

   At the same time, but elsewhere.

   Synonyms:
   meantime, in the meantime, meanwhilst, the while

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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, meantime

2. meanwhileadverb

   at the same time but in another place

   "meanwhile, back at the ranch..."

   Synonyms:
   meantime, in the meantime

3. 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:
   meantime, in the meantime

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1. meanwhileadjective

   Synonyms:
   in the mean time, in the interim

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1. meanwhileadverb

   Synonyms:
   meantime, during the interval

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1. List of paraphrases for "meanwhile":

   meantime, concurrently, moreover, furthermore, simultaneously, besides

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1. Anthony Burgess:

   Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

2. Maria Hamrefors:

   Meanwhile, shops in holiday resorts or in areas where people live - and work at home - have done very well.

3. Israel Police Superintendent Micky Rosenfeld:

   Unfortunately, within the West Bank area we have seen Palestinians celebrating this attack, meanwhile here in Israel... we will be mourning for a week over the people that were lost -- and we are talking about four innocent people that were shot to death, literally shot and killed at close range for no reason whatsoever.

4. Peter King:

   It's actually been a terrible year for the police because they've been attacked, they've been assailed and meanwhile they're being shot and murdered, but the thing about cops is they keep going.

5. Mehdi Hasan:

   [Republicans] are blaming Biden for rising gas prices. Meanwhile, guess who gets off scot-free? Not just Putin, but the big oil and gas companies.