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meanwhile English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word meanwhile once they have reached the level A2 – Elementary. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning meanwhile meaning

What does meanwhile mean?

Definitions in simple English

meanwhile Adverb

— You use meanwhile to introduce a new topic happening at the same time as the old topic. Sutton Coldfield won 2-0 away at Chelmsford. Meanwhile, Hightown were 3-0 winners against Clifton. International students are here only to study English. Meanwhile, many immigrant students must also work and take care of their families.

meanwhile Noun

— The meanwhile is the time between two things. Police are checking his story. In the meanwhile, he remains in jail.

meanwhile

— adverb at the same time but in another place meanwhile, back at the ranch...

— adverb (= meantime, in the meantime) 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

— noun the time between one event, process, or period and another meanwhile the socialists are running the government

Synonyms meanwhile synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as meanwhile?

meanwhile English » English

in the meantime

meantime

all the time

while

at the same time

interim

simultaneously

for the time being

all the while

lag

in the meanwhile

in the mean time

in the interim

for the present time

during

along the way

until then

temporarily

suddenly

simultaneous

recently

provisionally

pending

other day

now

interval

intermission

interlude

for a while

entr’acte

during this time

defective

concurrently

at this time

at once

ad interim

Topics meanwhile topics

What do people use meanwhile to talk about?

States Time Relative time Before

At the same time

• What words indicate that something happens at the same time as something else?
  at the same time as meanwhile while as -ing simultaneity concurrently coincident

States Time Relative time Before

During

• What words indicate that something happened during the time when something else was happening?
  while meanwhile in the meantime

Examples meanwhile examples

How do I use meanwhile in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Meanwhile, the PIRATE Party offers space on an internet server of their own to all CDU groups in Kassel that are affected by censorship by the party leaders.

Many Australians are descendants of criminals sent there. Meanwhile, the crime rate in Australia is very low. Food for thought.

Meanwhile, the weather abruptly changed.

Meanwhile, the rumbling was gradually getting louder.

Russian children think those fairytales having frogs remove their hides are so cute. Meanwhile, I'm over here puking my lungs out.

Movie subtitles

Meanwhile, we'll go pay a visit to the Coast Guard.

Meanwhile, we have zero facts surrounding Scarlett's death other than she was last seen inside Wadsworth Manor.

Meanwhile, as we try to discuss lighter matters during recreation, perhaps I may ask Nurse Franklin the purpose of her manicure?

Meanwhile, I thought I'd better put an Eccles cake in my handbag in case you didn't turn up.

Meanwhile, Nurse Crane reminded me that, as a midwife, I can choose which colleague I'd like to deliver my baby.

Meanwhile.

Meanwhile, Fandor.

Meanwhile, in the local police station near the abandoned house.

Meanwhile, Sandro's mother, seeking her son's salvation, gets into the art gallery, burns the dangerous painting and dies.

Meanwhile, the deadly breath of Nosferatu filled the sails ofthe ship so that it flew toward its goal with supernatural speed.

Meanwhile Black Larson stumbled onto Big Jim's mountain of gold.

Meanwhile. a surprise was waiting by the hearth.

Meanwhile, in the underground.

Meanwhile, you're jeopardizing the safety of the bank.

Meanwhile, back at the inn, the mysterious stranger is trying desperately to find a solution to an aspect of his experiment, one of many, that we're not too clear about as yet.

Meanwhile, what are you going to do?

Meanwhile, mademoiselle remains with me as hostage.

If you're to keep the girl meanwhile, pay the ransom.

In the meanwhile, allow me.

Meanwhile, I wouldn't plan on leaving London tonight, if I were you.

Meanwhile, Frazier's watching the clock, waiting for the phone to ring.

Meanwhile we are here cooling our heels. What impudence!

Meanwhile, time presses and we've work to do outside before it gets too late.

Meanwhile, I have filed a petition for an injunction. to prohibit you from either selling or removing the jewels.

In the meanwhile, if you want to do some collecting, you got a job.

Meanwhile, watch out for Sargent.

Meanwhile, the way Felix was acting with Maria was scandalizing everyone around.

MEANWHILE, YOU CAN HAVE THE RUN OF THE HOUSE.

Go up to your room and make yourself comfortable. And meanwhile, I'll scout around and see if I can find your Mr. McDermott. - You must think this very stupid of me.

Meanwhile the London public are earnestly reminded. of the emergency orders already issued.

But, meanwhile, our poor Earth got twenty-five years older.

Meanwhile the spring will be here.

Meanwhile, I still don't know why my father summoned me.

News and current affairs

Meanwhile, a billion people go hungry each day.

Meanwhile, the local population has remained impoverished and beset by diseases caused by unsafe air, poisoned drinking water, and pollution in the food chain.

Meanwhile, the Bush Administration will blame the sinking economy, bad luck, and unintentional miscalculations for the vanished surplus.

Meanwhile, the fracking bonanza in the US not only delivers a much greater reduction for free, but also creates long-term social benefits through lower energy costs.

Meanwhile, unsustainable budget deficits and public debt in most advanced economies have severely limited the scope for further fiscal stimulus.

Meanwhile, the ability to backstop, ring-fence, and bail out banks and other financial institutions is constrained by politics and near-insolvent sovereigns' inability to absorb additional losses from their banking systems.

Meanwhile, propping up secular dictators in the Middle East with US arms has helped to create Islamist extremism, which cannot be defeated by simplysending more drones.

Meanwhile, America's strategic partnership with Pakistan, where Obama won a significant symbolic victory by eliminating Osama bin Laden, is in tatters.

Meanwhile, those employees left behind must work that much harder, often without increased compensation.

Meanwhile, the Stability and Growth Pact should be strictly enforced, which implies using and strengthening the available sanctions.

Financial innovation, meanwhile, worked to make credit even cheaper and more widely available.

Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, Singapore, and China, there are calls for extending university programs so that students can obtain a broad, liberal education, in the hope that graduates will be more inclined to experiment and innovate.

Meanwhile, fears of structural decline pervade the country.

Meanwhile, Islamic cultures entered a historical phase in which science was equated with Western influence and eschewed.

Meanwhile, in about 2005, I was in South Africa with a small group advising former President Thabo Mbeki and his government about its IT policy.

Meanwhile, as Wolfgang Streeck writes persuasively in New Left Review, democratic governments, facing what seemed, in the 1960's, like an endless vista of innovation and growth, were quick to expand the welfare state.

Meanwhile, Latin American businesses have been increasing their own foreign investments.

Meanwhile, money for treatment is drying up.

African banks, meanwhile, are rock-solid compared to their debt-heavy counterparts in the US and Europe.

Meanwhile, the international community collectively fails to protect vast populations of vulnerable migrants, such as the millions stranded by the recent conflicts in North Africa.

Meanwhile, our most fundamental institutions - schools, police, and the courts - must be re-engineered to reflect and respond to the diversity of our communities, which is now a fact of life.

Meanwhile, the Global Forum on Migration and Development, established in 2007, has quickly become an important means of fostering knowledge and partnerships.

Meanwhile, in Germany, the elections this September may have surprising consequences for ECB monetary policy.

Meanwhile, state governments, seeing revenues fall as a result of lower taxable incomes last year, are cutting back like mad.

Meanwhile, Wall Street chieftains and their boards of directors have nothing to fear from government.

Meanwhile, America's support for the regimes in Yemen and Saudi Arabia has contributed to the rise of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.