on the button

Questions about on the button

What does on the button mean?

on the button means "being precise with regard to a prescribed or specified criterion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for on the button?

Close synonyms include on the nose, precisely, exactly, on the nose, on the dot. 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 on the button a common word?

on the button is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.