meantime

Adverb

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  meanwhile , in the meantime , interim , lag