Present Time

Definition: Present Time

Present Time

Noun

1. The circumstances and ideas of the present age; "behind the times"; "in times like these".

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Synonyms: Present Time

Instantaneity

Epoch, time; time of day, time of night; hour, minute; very minute; very time, very hour; present time, right time, true time, exact correct time.

The Present Time

Noun: the present, the present time, the present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion; the times, the existing time, the time being; today, these days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century; nonce, crisis, epoch, day, hour.

Adverb: at this time, at this moment; at the present time; Noun: now, at present; at hand.

Crosswords: Present Time

I guess it must be present time. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

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Books

• Actors Of Great Britain And The United States From The Days Of David Garrick To The Present Time (with Brander Matthews) (Notable American Authors) (reference)

• Book of Dignities, Containing Lists of the Official Personages of the British Empire from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, the Orders and (reference)

• Gold and Silver Coinage Under the Constitution: Laws Enacted Thereon by Congress from the Organization of the Federal Government to the Present Time (1896 (reference)

• Mormonism Unveiled: Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion from Its Rise to the Present Time (Communal Societies in America) (reference)

• The enduring Gael, our Irish heritage : a collection of essays on the history of Ireland and the Irish from pre-Christian to present time (reference)

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Production. Magnesium. Construction sheds and mountains are landscape features at the present time at Basic Magnesium's thousand-unit housing development near Las Vegas, Nevada. Credit: Library of Congress.

Indians fishing for salmon at Celilo Falls, Oregon. At the present time Indians have by treaty exclusive right for fishing in Columbia River which is adjacent to their reservation. This right is now being contested in lawsuits. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I do not see or feel that same confidence or even the same hopes in the haggard world at the present time. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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There is, I fear, at the present time, an increasing tendency to irreverent treatment of the name of God and of subjects connected with religion.

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Health

Thus, at the present time there is no reason to to consider routine detection or treatment of H. pylori infection in the absence of ulcers. (references)

The panel concludes that at the present time, cellulose acetate followed by citrate agar electrophoresis is the method of choice for large-scale centralized mass screening. (references)

At the present time these studies might best be done in referral centers with specific expertise and interest in investigation of the vascular aspects of erectile dysfunction. (references)

Business

In others, lessee's banks have not allowed payments to be made, resulting in situations in which foreign lessors were denied payments they were owed. At the present time, there seems to be little benefit for a foreign lessor to allow a leasing transaction to go forward without requiring that a "permission" be obtained by the lessee to make its scheduled payments of hard currency. (references)

Economic History

Switzerland

The Federal Department for Defense, Protection of the Population and Sport (DDPS), the governing body for military and defense related issues, announced in February 2000 that the procurement of an additional squadron of F/A-18 fighter jets is at the present time unfeasible. (references)

Nicaragua

There is little direct marketing in Nicaragua at the present time. (references)

Ghana

There is no indication at the present time that the level of political risk in Ghana will change markedly over the near term. (references)

Political Economy

Kuwait

In terms of safety and security, U.S. firms should not find anything in Kuwait at the present time to interfere with normal business operations. (references)

JAMAICA

The ongoing contraction of the apparel industry and a lack of alternatives for its workforce (largely female heads of household, with minimal qualifications for other employment) are additional disincentives for unionization at the present time. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Domestic airports in Ghana are not served by commercial flights at the present time. (references)

Worker Rights

Burma

The Committee also criticized the Government for not implementing the provisions of ILO Convention 87 on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize, which the Government ratified in 1955. In his testimony to the Committee, a government representative said that the Trade Unions Law was being revised, but that he could not provide the draft text at the present time. (references)

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Expression using "present time": at the present time. Additional references.

Chinese 

目前 (at the present time, currently). (various references)

Czech

přítomnost (presence, present). (various references)

Finnish

nykyaikana (at the present time, in these days, nowadays), aina tähän asti (up to the present time). (various references)

German

gegenwart (presence, present, today). (various references)

Hungarian

most (at present, at the moment, at the present time, for the time being, newly, now, on the present occasion, on this particular occasion, presently, this time), jelenleg (actually, at par, at present, at the moment, at the present time, currently, for the time being, now, on the present occasion, on this particular occasion, presently). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

方今 (now, nowadays), 今どき (nowadays). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほう�"�" (now, nowadays), いまどき (at this hour, nowadays, present day, recently, these days, today). (various references)

Pig Latin

esentpray imetay

Spanish

actualmente (actually, at present, at the present time, now, nowadays). (various references)

Turkish

zamanımızda (at the present time), günümüzde (at the present time, nowadays), şimdi (anon, at the present time, just, now, presently). (various references)

praesentia, praesentiae, praesentiam. (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: permittees.

-2 letters: entremets, permittee, pinsetter, teentsier.

-3 letters: emetines, emitters, emperies, emptiers, emptiest, epimeres, eremites, eternise, insetter, interest, misenter, preemies, preteens, pretense, pretties, spermine, sternite, teeniest, teensier, tempters, termites, terpenes, trientes.

-4 letters: eeriest, emeries, emetine, emetins, emitter, empires, emprise, emptier, empties, emptins, enemies, entires, entrees, entries, epeeist, epimere, epimers, eremite, erepsin, ermines, eserine, imprese, imprest.

+1 letter: presentiment.

+2 letters: presentiments.

+3 letters: interpermeates, misinterpreted, postretirement, potentiometers, preretirements, presentimental, sempiternities.

+4 letters: experimentalist, intemperateness.

+5 letters: departmentalizes, experimentalists, experimentations, extemporaneities, hyperexcitements, pancreatectomies, postexperimental.