TIME BEING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The present occasion

Example:

for the nonce

Synonyms:

nonce; time being

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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)

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