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meantime

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mean⋅time

  [meen-tahym]
Use meantime in a Sentence
–noun
1. the intervening time: The party is Tuesday, but in the meantime I have to shop and prepare the food.
–adverb
2. meanwhile.
Origin:
1300–50; ME; see mean 3 , time
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mean·time   (mēn'tīm')   
n.  The time between one occurrence and another; an interval.
adv.  During a period of intervening time; meanwhile.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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