for the time being

1. 1.

   temporarily

   “we'll stop for the time being”

   Synonymsfor the moment

Questions about for the time being

What does for the time being mean?

for the time being means "temporarily".

What is another word for for the time being?

Close synonyms include for the moment. 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 time being a common word?

for the time being 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.