just-in-time
Business. noting or pertaining to a method of inventory control that keeps inventories low by scheduling needed goods and equipment to arrive a short time before a production run begins. Abbreviation: JIT
Origin of just-in-time
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How to use just-in-time in a sentence
In fact, e-commerce is a massive and growing just-in-time industry.
The just-in-time mentality has spread from manufacturing and retailing into other businesses, and into our personal lives.
The hurricane exposed the vulnerabilities of our new just-in-time economy.
Ultimately, the solution lies not in moving away from a just-in-time world.
It also upended one of the most important concepts in modern business: just-in-time management.
just-in-time, point-of-sale, and electronic interchanges came into being because the human pragmatic made them necessary.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai Nadin
British Dictionary definitions for just-in-time
denoting or relating to an industrial method in which waste of resources is eliminated or reduced by producing production-line components, etc, as they are required, rather than holding large stocks: Abbreviation: JIT
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Other Idioms and Phrases with just-in-time
see in the nick of time.
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