for the moment

1. 1.

   temporarily

   “we'll stop for the time being”

   Synonymsfor the time being

Questions about for the moment

What does for the moment mean?

for the moment means "temporarily".

What is another word for for the moment?

Close synonyms include for the time being. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is for the moment a common word?

for the moment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.