Usually means: Temporarily, until further notice.
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  1. for the time being: Merriam-Webster
  2. for the time being: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. for the time being: Collins English Dictionary
  4. for the time being: Vocabulary.com
  5. for the time being: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. for the time being: Wiktionary
  7. for the time being: Dictionary.com
  8. For the Time Being: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. for the time being: Rhymezone
  10. for the time being: FreeDictionary.org
  11. for the time being: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. for the time being: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. for the time being: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. for the time being: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. for the time being: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. for the time being: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (for the time being)

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

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