at present

English

Prepositional phrase

at present

1. currently, now, at this moment in time, at the present time.

   Synonyms: right now, at the moment

   Coordinate terms: for the present, for now; presently ("soon")

   • 1793, Joseph Butler, The Analogy of Religion:

     ...; that good and bad actions at present are naturally rewarded and punished, not only as beneficial and mischievous to society, but also as virtuous and civious; ...

   • 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:

     One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].

   • 2011 (2008), Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press (translator), Advanced Well Completion Engineering, page 115,

     Underground natural gas storages are underground facilities for storing natural gas. At present, there are three types of underground natural gas storages worldwide, which include depleted oil and gas reservoir gas storages, salt-cave gas storages and aquifer storages.

Translations

currently

Bulgarian: понастоящем (bg) (ponastojaštem) Chinese: Mandarin: 现在 (zh), 当前 (zh) (dāngqián) Esperanto: estantece Finnish: parhaillaan (fi), tällä hetkellä (fi) French: à présent (fr) German: momentan (de), aktuell (de), gegenwärtig (de) Hungarian: jelenleg (hu) Interlingua: al presente, currentemente, ora, in iste momento, nunc Irish: faoi láthair, adrásta (literary) Italian: al momento (it) Marathi: सध्या (sadhyā) Polish: obecnie (pl), aktualnie (pl) Russian: теперь (ru) (teperʹ) Scottish Gaelic: an latha an-diugh Swedish: för närvarande (sv) Turkish: şu an

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