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View synonyms for just-in-time

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. : JIT


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 JIT
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Word History and Origins

Origin of just-in-time1

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

see in the nick of time .
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Example Sentences

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.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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