in the meantime
We'll buy you some shorts at the weekend, but meanwhile you'll just have to wear your long trousers.
The boys are still getting the mats out so, meanwhile, let's do some warm-up exercises.
"The pizza will be ready in 10 minutes, Mum." "Great - meanwhile, let's set the table."
They've arranged to have another meeting in two weeks, and meanwhile the problem is getting worse and worse!
The computers should be working again soon. Meanwhile, could everyone get on with some paperwork or something?

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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meanwhile | American Dictionary

meanwhile
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˈminˌwɑɪl, -ˌhwɑɪl/
until something expected happens, or while something else is happening:
It’s going to take several days for my car to be repaired – meanwhile I’m renting one.

Examples of meanwhile

meanwhile
Meanwhile, the state granted tracts of land to nobles or permitted them to purchase land in what had become the old borderlands.
The greatness of his poetry, and the fascination of the era which produced it, meanwhile remain undisputed.
Meanwhile, the needs of the day are profound, as is outlined in a later section of this article on critical directions for future work.
Meanwhile, as an epistemological consequence of microscopy, the argument from invisibility had led to heated debates over microscopic reality.
Meanwhile, since 1997, strong debates have arisen in the international research setting.
Meanwhile, indirect taxation had become less obviously regressive with the introduction in 1942 of purchase tax on the consumption of non-essential goods.
Meanwhile, the rates at which different regions remitted tax revenues to the centre continued to vary widely.
The direct and immediate costs, meanwhile, were largely concentrated in the public sector workforce.
Meanwhile, the democratic institutions by which conflict can be managed through peaceful means are not yet in place.
Meanwhile, dogmatic positions on whether perceived color is a property of physical objects or of the observer's nervous system are unreasonable.
Meanwhile, reform proposals have been published by the mass media (50) and in documents produced by academic institutions with the collaboration of key people (11).
Meanwhile, region is also a rough guide for understanding the ethnic distribution of the country.
Meanwhile, the auctioned segments stand as artworks in front of museums or business headquarters all over the world.
Meanwhile, the steady interior flow generated in the annular region creates a biaxial extensional flow in the neighbourhood of the inner droplet.
Meanwhile, future modeling work should fully exploit the richness of reading eye movements and be wary of the limitations of aggregated data.
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