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in the mean time

in the mean time is the alternative form of in the meantime.

Meaning of in the meantime

Prepositional phrase

  1. Meanwhile.
    • "In the meantime," said Norbourne, "we have arrived at the park-gate, and have not determined whither we shall ride."1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Different Views of Youth and Age”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 101

Questions about in the mean time

What is in the mean time the alternative form of?
In the mean time is the alternative form of in the meantime.

Words near in the mean time in the dictionary

  1. in the long term
  2. in the loop
  3. in the lump
  4. in the main
  5. in the making
  6. in the mean time
  7. in the meantime
  8. in the meanwhile
  9. in the middle of
  10. in the midst of
  11. in the mix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in the mean time (page history and authors); in the meantime (page history and authors). 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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