just-in-time


adjective
  1. 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

1
First recorded in 1610–20 as an adverb, and in 1975–80 as an adjective

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How to use just-in-time in a sentence

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British Dictionary definitions for just-in-time

just-in-time

adjective
  1. 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

just-in-time

see in the nick of time.

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