Just-in-time Definition

adjective

(operations) Of a manufacturing system in which components are delivered at the precise time required, thus minimizing inventory carrying costs.

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(computing) Performing compilation of code on the client machine immediately before execution.

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adverb

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

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Just-in-time Sentence Examples

  • An hour later she was back in the barn, - and just in time.

  • You're just in time for breakfast.

  • He acted in the same spirit a few months later, when (about July 1839), understanding that the authorities intended to prevent the despatch of emigrants to New Zealand, he hurried them off on his own responsibility, thus compelling the government to annex the country just in time to anticipate a similar step on the part of France.

  • Lance Armstrong supposedly retired from racing at the end of the 2005 season, but announced in 2008, that he would return to the cycling circuit just in time for the 2009 season.

  • Carroll was able to look out the window just in time to see one of the instruments being tossed.

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