just in time

1. 1.

   at the last possible moment

   “she was saved in the nick of time”

   Synonymsin the nick of time

Questions about just in time

What does just in time mean?

just in time means "at the last possible moment".

What is another word for just in time?

Close synonyms include in the nick of time. 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 just in time a common word?

just in 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.