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just-in-time
adjective
- 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
- 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
Word History and Origins
Origin of just-in-time1
Idioms and Phrases
see in the nick of time .Example Sentences
He was hand selected by Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs for his unrivalled expertise in just-in-time supply logistics.
Sometimes on the way home from work, Karim drove past her house to visit the vigil at Just-in-Time Recreation—the first of two locations where the shootings had taken place.
When we arrived at the former location of Schemengees Bar and Grille, the sign on the outside of the building stood in stark contrast to the signage in front of Just-in-Time Recreation Center.
On one of these drives, I clocked the distance between Just-in-Time Recreation and Schemengees Bar and Grille, perhaps to bring numerical order to a piece of history that otherwise defied sense.
At some point, I took up the strange ritual of driving north, often at night, along familiar back roads, through the rural neighborhood where the shooter lived, past Just-in-Time Recreation, down Main Street, following the bend of the Androscoggin River, to Schemengees Bar and Grille, where the second shooting had taken place.
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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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