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单词 for the meantime
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for the meantime
3. for the meantime: so long as a period of (intervening) time lasts; for the interim. Occasionally used predicatively: intended to serve for the interim, temporary.
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in (that, this, which, etc.) meantime1340
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(all) the (also this, that) meantimea1382
in the mean season (also space)a1382
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(in) the meanwhile that?1418
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in the mean way1569
interim1580
in (that, this, which, etc.) meanwhilea1593
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this while1594
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among-hands?1609
between (betwixt obsolete or archaic) whiles1647
ad interim1701
per interim1724
interimistically1890
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxviii. 263 Whan he was yeue to ony occupacion he left al other thyng for the mene tyme and tendid therto.
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Biv Tho the rysynge of the body be delayed for a season, the soule neuertheles shal for the meane tyme haue a pleasaunt & a swete lyfe.
1721 C. Cibber Refusal i. 10 Because in our haste some of our Cloaths and Bills of Exchaange were forgot, pridee be so graateful as to send us two Score Pounds, to put us into some Worship for the mean time.
1850 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 305/1 The moment I caught sight of Jacobs's broad hearty brown face..I took my cue for the meantime.
1897 Daily News 17 Feb. 3/2 This order was for the meantime.
1930 19th Cent. Dec. 713 Now, the drawback of this plan, from the Zionist point of view, is that it will prevent land purchase for the meantime and the growth of the Jewish ‘islands’ in the country.
1990 Mod. Railways Aug. 402/1 For the meantime he has a tremendous task, compounded by the managerial and organisational changes racking BR as it attempts to meld the Sectors and production.
extracted from meantimen.adv.adj.
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