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