in the meantime
During the interval
In the meantime marks the interval between now and some expected event, or between two events in a narrative.
It often introduces what happens while waiting: The results won't be ready until Friday; in the meantime, try to rest.
Sometimes shortened to meantime alone: Meantime, we kept working.
- interimProvisional in-between phase
- temporaryLimited in duration
- for nowAt this time
- hiatusBreak in activity
- liminalAt a threshold
just for now · bridging · gap · in between · pending · occupying · provisional · interstitial · waiting · stopgap · stand in · preparing · placeholder · short term · concurrently · as of now · between · until
- phrasesnoun phrases, noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, prepositional phrases
- Temporarilybriefly, temporarily, for now, pro tem, fleetingly
temporal permanence
in the meantimepermanently
In an unchanging manner
forever · for good · once and for all · in perpetuity · eternally
temporal position
in the meantimeeventually
At a later time
in the end · ultimately · at last · finally · in due course