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Definition of "time being" []

  • The present time (noun)

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Use "time being" in a sentence
  • "He had decided to put his semiautobiographical novel, Anslem, aside for the time being and try something more commercial."
  • ""With Greek restructuring risk now negligible for the time being and the U.S. data unlikely to show any firmness until July at the earliest the U.S. dollar looks set for another bout of potentially material weakness in the near term," Westpac Bank said in a note to clients."
  • "The several working bees had gotten beams, scantlings and cladding up, shingles on the roof and a path from the front doorstep down to the spring; for the time being they would finish only the ground floor, deal with upstairs when an upstairs was necessary."
Words like "time being"
for the time being