TIME BEING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does time being mean? 

• TIME BEING (noun)
  The noun TIME BEING has 1 sense:

1. the present occasion

  Familiarity information: TIME BEING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIME BEING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The present occasion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

nonce; time being

Context example:

for the nonce

Hypernyms ("time being" is a kind of...):

nowadays; present (the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech)

 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)

Of course my statement must be taken cum grano, since I am writing from the dictation of a clerk of the Russian consul, who kindly translated for me, time being short.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This Christmas-time being come, and Agnes having reposed no new confidence in me, a doubt that had several times arisen in my mind—whether she could have that perception of the true state of my breast, which restrained her with the apprehension of giving me pain—began to oppress me heavily.

(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)

The suddenness with which he dropped it, when he perceived that it was useless to him; the malice, insolence, and hatred, he revealed; the leer with which he exulted, even at this moment, in the evil he had done—all this time being desperate too, and at his wits' end for the means of getting the better of us—though perfectly consistent with the experience I had of him, at first took even me by surprise, who had known him so long, and disliked him so heartily.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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)

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)