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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
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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