for the time being

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Adverb

for the time being (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Temporarily; for now; until later; until the situation changes; in an indefinite period of time.

   I think I will ignore the problem for the time being.

   • 1941 October, F. S. Bond, “The Railways of China”, in Railway Magazine, page 440:

     And so, unfortunately, this great and spreading network of railways, that recently showed such promise as a major instrument in the modern development of China, must be left for the time being in the melting-pot of Armageddon.

   • 2022 September 24, Sam Jones, “Ill-fated Spanish village poised to be destroyed a third time”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Neither Aracil nor his five friends have the money to pay for the costs of the demolition, which, they say, are punitively over-inflated. For the time being, their hopes rest on legal appeals, and should those fail, on a crowdfunding campaign.

Synonyms

• for the time
• for time

Translations

temporarily; until later

• Azerbaijani: hələlik (az)
• Belarusian: паку́ль (pakúlʹ)
• Catalan: de moment (ca), ara per ara
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 就目前而言 (jiù mùqián éryán), 暫時／暂时 (zh) (zànshí), 權時／权时 (zh) (quánshí), (formal) 權且／权且 (zh) (quánqiě), 姑且 (zh) (gūqiě)

• Czech: prozatím (cs)
• Dutch: voorlopig (nl), vooreerst (nl)
• Estonian: ajutiselt
• Finnish: toistaiseksi (fi), tällä erää, tältä erää
• French: pour le moment (fr), pour l’instant (fr)
• German: fürs Erste (de); vorerst (de), einstweilen (de), vorläufig (de), zunächst einmal, bis auf Weiteres (de)
• Hungarian: egyelőre (hu), pillanatnyilag (hu), per pillanat
• Icelandic: í þetta sinn
• Italian: per il momento
• Japanese: 当分の間 (とうぶんのあいだ, tōbun-no aida), 差し当たり (ja) (さしあたり, sashiatari), 取りあえず (とりあえず, toriaezu)
• Polish: na razie (pl), chwilowo (pl), póki co (pl)
• Portuguese: por enquanto (pt)
• Romanian: deocamdată (ro), pentru moment
• Russian: пока́ (ru) (poká), пока́ что (ru) (poká što), до поры́ до вре́мени (ru) (do porý do vrémeni)
• Spanish: por ahora, por el momento, por lo pronto, de momento, hoy por hoy
• Swedish: tills vidare (sv), för tillfället (sv)
• Telugu: ప్రస్తుతానికి (prastutāniki)
• Turkish: şimdilik (tr), geçici olarak
• Ukrainian: по́ки (póky)
• Welsh: am dro, am y tro