in the meantime

1. 1.

   during the intervening time

   “meanwhile I will not think about the problem”

   “meantime he was attentive to his other interests”

   “in the meantime the police were notified”

   Synonymsmeanwhilemeantime

Questions about in the meantime

What does in the meantime mean?

in the meantime means "during the intervening time".

What is another word for in the meantime?

Close synonyms include meanwhile, meantime. 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 in the meantime a common word?

in the meantime 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.