JUST-IN-TIME Definition & Meaning

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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

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of just-in-time¹

First recorded in 1610–20 as an adverb, and in 1975–80 as an adjective

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Idioms and Phrases

see in the nick of time .

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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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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.

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One of the reasons for fasting, Fazla told me, was to feel more connected to the suffering of other people; to that end, he planned to visit the vigil in front of Just-in-Time Recreation that afternoon to pay his respects.

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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.

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Another story was about the resilient children who, despite the memory of the shooting, continued to bowl at Just-in-Time Recreation Center.

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