FOR THE TIME BEING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does for the time being mean? 

• FOR THE TIME BEING (adverb)
  The adverb FOR THE TIME BEING has 1 sense:

1. temporarily

  Familiarity information: FOR THE TIME BEING used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOR THE TIME BEING (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Temporarily

Synonyms:

for the moment; for the time being

Context example:

we'll stop for the time being

 Context examples 

Under way, and with nothing for the time being to do, I turned my attention to the situation of the boats.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The paradox of it was that it was the story itself that was freighted with his power, that was the channel, for the time being, through which his strength poured out to her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But Miss Mowcher, finding that I was not at present disposed for any decoration within the range of her art, and that I was, for the time being, proof against the blandishments of the small bottle which she held up before one eye to enforce her persuasions, said we would make a beginning on an early day, and requested the aid of my hand to descend from her elevated station.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To which pathetic appeal Daisy would answer with a coo, or Demi with a crow, and Meg would put by her lamentations for a maternal revel, which soothed her solitude for the time being.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And I make free to say that for the time being life assumed the same sordid values to me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was evident that his mind was not in working order yet, and his ideas needed clarifying, for often in the middle of a plaintive strain, he would find himself humming a dancing tune that vividly recalled the Christmas ball at Nice, especially the stout Frenchman, and put an effectual stop to tragic composition for the time being.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)