ahead of time

1. Earlier, sooner, as in The meeting was scheduled for three o'clock, but most people arrived ahead of time. [Early 1900s]

Example Sentences

Crawford argued that if officials had prepared appropriately before fire broke out and the winds became extreme, firefighters could have learned earlier about the empty Santa Ynez Reservoir and readied resources ahead of time.

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"DHS enforcement operations are highly targeted, and officers do their due diligence. We know who we are targeting ahead of time," an agency official said in a statement to BBC.

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Managers can issue warnings to baristas who repeatedly write on customer cups ahead of time, scrawl something inappropriate or fail to use a Sharpie, according to internal guidance on the mandate to Starbucks stores.

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They didn’t plan the killing ahead of time, Echeverria told the informant, but were provoked when one of them said, “F— 18th Street.”

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Anderson’s films now tend to arrive under a veil of secrecy — it’s often unclear what the movie’s about ahead of time.

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