last minute

1. 1.

   the latest possible moment

   “money became available at the eleventh hour”

   “at the last minute the government changed the rules”

   Synonymseleventh hour

   Broadermoment

Questions about last minute

What does last minute mean?

last minute means "the latest possible moment".

What is another word for last minute?

Close synonyms include eleventh hour. 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 last minute a common word?

last minute 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.