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English Dictionary: meanwhile by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
meanwhile
adv
  1. at the same time but in another place; "meanwhile, back at the ranch..."
  2. 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"
    Synonym(s): meanwhile, meantime, in the meantime
n
  1. the time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"
    Synonym(s): interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Meantime \Mean"time`\, Meanwhile \Mean"while`\, n.
      The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Meantime \Mean"time`\, Meanwhile \Mean"while`\, adv.
      In the intervening time; during the interval.
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