Meaning & use
meantime
The period of time between two events or between now and a particular future point.
See it in a sentence
Dinner will be ready at seven; in the meantime, help yourself to snacks.
The repair will take a week, so in the meantime we're using a rental car.
A note on using this word
Write it as one word, 'meantime,' in the common phrase 'in the meantime'; 'mean time' as two words refers to an average time, such as Greenwich Mean Time.
Words with a similar meaning
interimmeanwhile
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