noun
definition
The time spent waiting for another event; time in between.
example
I'll get started tomorrow but, in the meantime, let's see if we can get a few more opinions.
adverb
definition
During the interval; meanwhile
Examples of meantime in a Sentence
In the meantime, Thanksgiving was coming up - and then Christmas.
In the meantime, I'll keep this locked up.
But in the meantime, hunger will stay with us even in the world of plenty.
In the meantime, watch your back, Swami.
In 1688 Mannheim, which had in the meantime recovered from its former disasters, was captured by the French, and in 1689 it was burned down.
Meantime, the purchasing power of the dollar which the railway company receives for a specified service is gradually growing smaller, owing to the general increases year by year in wages and in the cost of material.
In the meantime, bring them here.
The Funj who had meantime settled in Sennar became the dominant race by the 15th century.
In the meantime, Dean had all he could do to keep up with Parkside's police day-to-day activities.
In 1148, having lost by the earl's death her principal supporter, she retired to Normandy, of which her husband had in the meantime gained possession.
In the meantime, I've got to run out this morning to meet with my financial manager to adjust my plan now that I'm happily unemployed.
In the meantime, she wasn't about to go down without a fight.
This, then, was Ezekiel's political creed - destruction of Jerusalem and its inhabitants, restoration of the exiles, and meantime submission to Babylon.
Should a defect occur with a wrought iron boiler it is usually necessary for the purpose of repair to disconnect and remove the whole apparatus, the heating system of which it forms a part being in the meantime useless.
In the meantime he needed to encourage Carmen to become more careful about her own safety.
In the meantime the Spaniards had penetrated into the interior of what is now the Argentine Republic, and established themselves on the eastern slopes of the Andes.
In the meantime, Vermont continued as an independent state without any recognition from Congress until its admission into the Union on the 4th of March 1791.
Meantime the development of the coast region had been taken in hand.
It would heal once he reached the main craft with the help of the medical unit but was useless in the meantime.
Out of these have grown large factories, employing as many as 10,000 to 12,000 men each; but when harvest comes round, these men leave the factories and repair to their fields, and meantime the factories stand still for two or three months.
In the meantime his aims had been gradually concentrating.
In the meantime the Ashkenazic (or German) Jews had been working out their own salvation.
Meantime Saul had fallen in battle, and northern Israel was in a state of chaos.
Meantime hostilities more car less constant continued with England, but, though in 1322 Edward made an incursion as far as Edinburgh, the internal weakness of his government prevented his gaining any real success, while in October of this year Bruce again ravaged Yorkshire, defeated the English near Byland, and almost captured their king.
Important innovations in the constitution of 1897 are the office of lieutenantgovernor, and the veto power of the governor which may extend to parts and clauses of appropriation bills, but a bill may be passed over his veto by a three-fifths vote of each house of the legislature, and a bill becomes a law if not returned to the legislature withil l ten days after its reception by the governor, unless the session of the legislature shall have expired in the meantime.
Thus the Psalms were necessarily viewed as prophetic; and meantime, in accordance with the common Hebrew representation of ideal things as existing in heaven, the true king remains hidden with God.
In the meantime the Presbyterians, who had been officially recognized in Virginia under the Toleration Act in 1699, and had been guaranteed religious autonomy in the Valley by Governor Gooch in 1738, had sent missionaries into the border counties of eastern Virginia.
In the meantime here is a picture of my mother extreme ironing with two broken legs on her patio.
In the meantime Mildred had got the letter and crept away with it.
She fed from him silently and made every effort to avoid him in the meantime.
We have uniforms and … showers for you in the meantime.
But it's your new home in the meantime.
In the meantime, all of Rhyn's Immortals and Death's assassins would be a disorganized mess.
We'll set up a meeting with Jonny in the meantime.
Meantime Cretan autonomy had been proclaimed (loth March).
In the meantime the crops of cereals increased little, and stock raising generally decreased.
Meantime he saw much service in the army abroad, where he served with conspicuous bravery and not without distinction.
In the meantime, however, Pomerania had been devastated by the Thirty Years' War and occupied by the Swedes, who had taken possession of its towns and fortresses.
Meantime, while recurring again and again, as was his custom, to this cardinal difficulty, Mill worked indefatigably in other directions where he saw his way clear.
The Rump proceeded to expel sixty-one Jacobins from the Council of Five Hundred, adjourned its sessions until the 19th of February 1800, and appointed a commission of twenty-five members with power to act in the meantime.
Meantime the internal politics of Venice had been steadily preparing the way for the approaching fusion at Rialto.
He had in the meantime, however, begun his great work, to which these several efforts were only preparatory studies.
In the meantime war between Great Britain and the United States was imminent.
Meantime his Arabian wife discovered the plan and escaped to her father, who made war on Herod, and completely defeated his army.
In the meantime he had done much useful work, especially that of laying down, conjointly with Merlin of Douai, the principles on which the legislation of the revolutionary epoch should be codified.
In the meantime the value of its exports to foreign countries increased only from $3,002,679 to $4,565,598, and the value of its imports from foreign countries only from $1,952,728 to $3,054,318.
Meantime Der Ring des Nibelungen was rapidly approaching completion, and on the 13th of August 1876 the introductory portion, Das Rheingold, was performed at Bayreuth for the first time as part of the great whole, followed on the 14th by Die Walkiire, on the 16th by Siegfried and on the 17th by Geitterdiimmerung.
In France, in the meantime, an arc of the meridian had been measured (1669-1670) by Jean Picard, numerous longitudes had been observed between 1672 and 1680 by the same, and by Phil.
The primary triangulation was only completed in 1858, but in the meantime, in 1791, the detail survey had begun.
Meantime the greater part of the eastern seaboard having fallen under Italian influence,.