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. Joe Biden:

   People are turned away under Title 42, and they’re not barred from trying to come back. They can and they do try to enter the United States again and again, which makes the problem at the border even worse, in the meantime, my administration will continue to use that authority as the Supreme Court has required.

2. Jeb Bush:

   In the meantime the governor and the mayor need to protect law-abiding citizens.

3. President Donald Trump:

   We have four or five people that are great -- very respected. In the meantime we have our ambassador to Germany who is a very smart person and he's doing a very good job.

4. President Barack Obama for appointment:

   In the meantime, the American people are going to have the ability to gauge whether the person I've nominated is well within the mainstream, is a good jurist, is somebody who's worthy to sit on the Supreme Court, i think it will be very difficult for Mr. McConnell to explain how, if the public concludes that this person's very well qualified, that the Senate should stand in the way simply for political reasons.

5. Mazher Mahmood:

   I will vigorously contest it at court, in the meantime I have nothing further to say.