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For an indeterminate period
Answer for the clue "For an indeterminate period ", 12 letters:
indefinitely
Word definitions for indefinitely in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 For a long time, no end defined 2 forever
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indefinitely \In*def"i*nite*ly\, adv. In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely. If the world be indefinitely extended, that is, so far as no human intellect ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES postponed indefinitely (= no one knows when it will happen ) ▪ His trial has been postponed indefinitely . COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB continue ▪ Also, be aware that this happy state of reward for only relative ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c.; see indefinite + -ly (2).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. to an indefinite extent; for an indefinite time; "this could go on indefinitely"
Usage examples of indefinitely.
The limits of the latter therefore seem to be indefinitely extended, whilst on the other hand tradition, and polemics too in many cases, demanded an adherence to the shortest formula.
So instead of producing the authoritarian institutions that were the inevitable outcome of the ferocious power struggles and ideological confusions characteristic of social evolution on Earth, Jevlenese society developed as a kind of patronized anarchy, secure in the guarantee of unlimited goods and products indefinitely, and the total absence of threats.
Everything would probably have gone on like that indefinitely, since he had convinced himself that bugling was nothing, had it 20 not been for that deathbed promise to his mother and for Dixie Wells.
I understand, been not infrequently robbed in the past whilst in conclave, and so long as those of Turland, Renigard and The Doldrums are at large you may expect the robberies to continue indefinitely.
The writer must put in the last full stop, which may be as brutal as the suicide of the hero, a solution often considered in the notebooks, or indefinitely suspended like an organ fermata, prolonging the sublime note of reconciliation into the future.
If he could just convince one more senator to spell him on the filibuster, they could filibuster indefinitely.
But it was a laggard and ice-thin prosperity, and Sarah was worried about her daughter: her son-in-law was a licensed pipe fitter, laid off indefinitely by a Tampa-area natural gas distributor.
Not only had the old sorcerers learned to displace their assemblage points to thousands of positions on the surface or on the inside of their energy masses but they had also learned to fixate their assemblage points on those positions, and thus retain their cohesiveness, indefinitely.
I feared to reveal the truth, for they might take my claim to be a Hibernating Man as a sign of lunacy, and keep me locked up indefinitely.
I shall tell the Emir el Hamel el Kebir that I intend to remain here indefinitely, under his protection, and that I hope he will give you your precious treaty, and send you off at once.
The ligand field of each particle expands indefinitely, they say now, which is going to open up a whole new field of research.
Lady Pembury is very attached to them both, and wished them to stay indefinitely, but it so happens that they have to trasact some business with a gentleman of Oxford concerning a mutal property in Spain, and since the roads are none too safe for foreign ladies travelling alone, I wonder now whether you and young Cobtree will undertake to be Squires of Dames and ride as their escort, since you are also bound for Oxford?
He has regarded my withdrawal only as a necessary period of recapitulation, another step of learning, which may last indefinitely.
Paula was in the hands of a ruthless killer who savoured death too much to allow her to live indefinitely?
If farther attachments be required for the accommodation of out-building conveniences, they may be continued indefinitely in the rear.