adverbial N2 common casualpolitewritten

とりあえず — for now / first of all

とりあえず

Meaning

for now / first of all / as a first step — a provisional action taken before the fuller one

とりあえずビールください。

I'll have a beer to start with.

Marks something as a stop-gap first move, with more to follow — ordering, planning, or acting before the details are settled.

とりあえず、できるところから始はじめよう。

For now, let's start with what we can do.

詳くわしくは後あとで話はなすが、とりあえず無事ぶじだ。

I'll explain in detail later, but for now, I'm safe.

Jengo shows とりあえず the way you actually meet it: inside real Japanese sentences, so it sticks instead of staying an abstract rule.

Sources Compiled with reference to A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar.