Definition of Meanwhile

Meanwhile

The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).

In the intervening time; during the interval.

Related Definitions:

As, During, In, Interval, Intervening, Mean, Meantime, Or, The, Time

Meanwhile Quotations

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
Isaac Asimov

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
Virgil

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Dean Koontz

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
Anthony Burgess

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.
Charles Rangel

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.
Ang Lee

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.
Helen Reddy

I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.
Mary Landrieu

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.
Maggie Gallagher

Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.
Tim Bishop

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.
Kent McCord

Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.
Kent McCord

Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.
Gray Davis

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.
Betty Hill

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
A. E. van Vogt

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.
Jerry Pournelle

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
Joe Eszterhas

Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.
Belle Boyd

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.
Robert Quine

I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.
Jennifer Tilly

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.
Robert Rainy

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
Peter D. Mitchell

I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.
Count Basie

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Meanwhile Translations

meanwhile in Afrikaans is tegelyk, solank, intusse
meanwhile in Dutch is intussen, inmiddels, daarentegen
meanwhile in French is entrefaites
meanwhile in German is indessen, unterdessen, inzwischen, indessen
meanwhile in Italian is nel frattemoi
meanwhile in Portuguese is entrementes
meanwhile in Spanish is entretanto, entremedias, mientras tanto
meanwhile in Swedish is under tiden

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