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for the time being

for the time being adverb: temporarily; for now; until later; until the situation changes; in an indefinite period of time.

Adverb

for the time being (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Temporarily; for now; until later; until the situation changes; in an indefinite period of time.
    • I think I will ignore the problem for the time being.
    • And so, unfortunately, this great and spreading network of railways, that recently showed such promise as a major instrument in the modern development of China, must be left for the time being in the melting-pot of Armageddon.1941 October, F. S. Bond, “The Railways of China”, in Railway Magazine, page 440

for the time being meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam

for the time being in Tamil

தற்போதைக்கு, தற்காலிகமாக, தற்போதைய பொறுப்பாளர், நட்டாமுட்டியாக

for the time being in Telugu

temporarily; until later
ప్రస్తుతానికి prastutāniki

for the time being in Malayalam

for the mome-nt, for now, for the present
തത്ക്കാലം, തൽക്കാലത്തേക്ക്, ചുരുക്കത്തിൽ, താത്കാലികമായി, കുറച്ച്നേരത്തേക്ക്, താത്ക്കാലികമായി

Synonyms of for the time being

Questions about for the time being

What does for the time being mean?
For the time being means temporarily; for now; until later; until the situation changes; in an indefinite period of time.
What is for the time being in Tamil?
For the time being in Tamil is தற்போதைக்கு, தற்காலிகமாக, தற்போதைய பொறுப்பாளர். See For the time being meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is for the time being?
For the time being is an adverb.

Words near for the time being in the dictionary

  1. for the record
  2. for the rest
  3. for the sake of
  4. for the taking
  5. for the time
  6. for the time being
  7. for the want of
  8. for the win
  9. for the world
  10. for the worse
  11. for this once

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: for the time being (page history and authors); for the time being (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); for the time being (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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