Definition of On time

1. Adverb. At the expected time. "She always arrives on time"

Definition of On time

1. Adjective. Punctual or according to schedule. ¹

2. Adverb. Punctually or according to the schedule. ¹

3. Adverb. By installments, payments over a period of time. ¹

4. Adverb. (chess) By a player's running out of time. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of On Time

on the up
on the up-and-up
on the up and up
on the uptake
on the verge
on the wagon
on the wane
on the warpath
on the watch
on the way
on the whole
on the wing
on their own(p)
on thin ice
on tilt
on time (current term)
on tiptoe
on to
on top
on top of
on top of that
on top of the world
on tour
on tow
on track
on trend
on trial
on watch
on wheels
on your bike

Literary usage of On time

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

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Walter Malins Rose, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"... premises it was the duty of the defendant on time said 1st day of August in the year 1806, at,” etc., “to have distributed, ..."

2. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1911)
"... restrictions on time exportation of pulp wood or WOO(l pulp ... on time cheaper des of writing paper increased. liquor schedule was subjected to a still ..."

3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Too late is now to speke ofthat matera, Prudence, alas, one of thine eyen three Me lacked alway, ere that I came here : For on time passed well remembred ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"D. in 1872 on island of St Croix (qv), in the West Indies, on time completion of ... of time Nativity celebrated on time 25th of Amazon, with great nomp. ..."

5. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1865)
"In North America there occurred a small extension of the continent on time Atlantic and Gulf borders ; a vast increase west of the Mississippi; ..."

6. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"on time. Punctual, punctually. Subjects,> p. 30. 1867 I am going to take this coach in to Carson City on time, if 1848 Sposo you never heard of burying a ..."

7. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1881)
"... refused to sit on time commission, because he had sworn to observe time lawsof England, mind bylaw no man could be tried for his life except by a jury. ..."

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