in the process
C2 If you are doing something, and you do something else in the process, the second thing happens as a result of doing the first thing:
I stood up to say hello and spilled my drink in the process.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Simultaneous and consecutive
- accompany
- all the while idiom
- along
- along the way idiom
- alternate
- go
- in rotation idiom
- in tandem idiom
- live
- no sooner ... than idiom
- once
- one after another idiom
- over
- synchronous
- tandem
- the minute (that) idiom
- through
- throughout
- together
- under
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