Definition of Just in time

1. Adverb. At the last possible moment. "She was saved in the nick of time"

Exact synonyms: In The Nick Of Time

Definition of Just in time

1. Adverb. At the last possible moment; just before or within the assigned time. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Just In Time

just-noticeable difference
just-so story
just a minute
just a sec
just a second
just about
just another pretty face
just as
just as well
just compensation
just compensations
just deserts
just desserts
just ducky
just in case
just in time (current term)
just kidding
just like that
just now
just right
just shoot me
just so
just the same
just the ticket
just then
just what the doctor ordered
just wondering
justed
juster
justers

Literary usage of Just in time

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The next year he took out Lord Dcla- warr to Jamestown, arriving just in time to prevent the entire colony, with the governor, Sir Thomas Dale, ..."

2. The Daring Adventures of Kit Carson and Fremont, Among Buffaloes, Grizzlies by John Charles Frémont (1888)
"For a day or two they journeyed through a tract with but little game, and came near starving; but just in time to save them they came to Lawson's, ..."

3. Austria: Vienna, Prague, Hungary, Bohemia, and the Danube; Galicia, Styria by Johann Georg Kohl (1844)
"... and was just in time to reach the entrance to a neighbouring farm, where he fell down senseless ; and when the servants came out to his assistance, ..."

4. Memoirs of Richard Cumberland by Richard Cumberland (1807)
"for Ireland: so that my letter got to hint just in time—It gives me great satisfaction, gays he, that my opinion of Bishop Cumberland's grandson agrees with ..."

5. The Records of Living Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps by Lewis Randolph Hamersly (1898)
"... and rescued thirty-three of the “Trinity's” crew, who had been wrecked October, 1880, and just in time to save them from starvation, as the little food ..."

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