holdoff vs meantime

holdoff

noun
  • A delay or forebearance. 

  • A fixture or attachment intended to prevent direct contact between two objects. 

meantime

noun
  • The time spent waiting for another event; time in between. 

adv
  • during the interval; meanwhile 

How often have the words holdoff and meantime occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )