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Meaning of meanwhile

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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" [syn:
         {meanwhile}, {meantime}, {in the meantime}]
      n 1: the time between one event, process, or period and another;
           "meanwhile the socialists are running the government" [syn:
           {interim}, {meantime}, {meanwhile}, {lag}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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