against time

1. 1.

   as fast as possible; before a deadline

   “it was a race against the clock”

   Synonymsagainst the clock

Questions about against time

What does against time mean?

against time means "as fast as possible; before a deadline".

What is another word for against time?

Close synonyms include against the clock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is against time a common word?

against time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.