Usually means: Throughout the entire time period.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. all the while: Merriam-Webster
  2. all the while: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. all the while: Wiktionary
  4. all the while: Dictionary.com
  5. all the while: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  6. all the while: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. all the while: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (all the while)

▸ adverb:  (idiomatic) At the same time as, usually over an extended period.

Similar:
the while, all along, parallelly, throughout, contemporaneously, cotemporaneously, cotemporally, concurrently, at a stretch, awhile, more...

Opposite:
nevertheless, nonetheless, however, yet, still

Types:
whole time, entire time, all time, constantly, continuously, more...

Adjectives:
borderline, anytime, togeather, half, nigh, other, close, eeny, sometime, around, how long

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Similar:
the while, all along, parallelly, throughout, contemporaneously, cotemporaneously, cotemporally, concurrently, at a stretch, awhile, more...

Opposite:
nevertheless, nonetheless, however, yet, still

Types:
whole time, entire time, all time, constantly, continuously, more...

Adjectives:
borderline, anytime, togeather, half, nigh, other, close, eeny, sometime, around, how long



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