meanwhile

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meanwhile - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Meantime \Mean"time`\, Meanwhile \Mean"while`\, n.
     The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).
     [1913 Webster] Meantime

  Meantime \Mean"time`\, Meanwhile \Mean"while`\, adv.
     In the intervening time; during the interval.
     [1913 Webster]

meanwhile - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  meanwhile
      adv 1: at the same time but in another place; "meanwhile, back
             at the ranch..."
      2: 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" [syn:
         meanwhile, meantime, in the meantime]
      n 1: the time between one event, process, or period and another;
           "meanwhile the socialists are running the government" [syn:
           interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag]

meanwhile - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "meanwhile":
     ad interim, at a stretch, between acts, betweentimes,
     betweenwhiles, during the interval, during the time, en attendant,
     for a time, for the meantime, for the moment, for the nonce,
     in the interim, in the meanwhile, interim, interval, meantime,
     pendente lite, temporarily, the while, until then, while