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lead time
[ leed ]
noun
- the period of time between the initial phase of a process and the emergence of results, as between the planning and completed manufacture of a product.
lead time
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noun
- manufacturing the time between the design of a product and its production
- commerce the time from the placing of an order to the delivery of the goods
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of lead time1
Example Sentences
There are a number of scenarios in which California could get hours of lead time ahead of a damaging tsunami.
The long lead time for film development means that it’s too soon to tell whether the new administration — and Hollywood’s reaction to it — could have any effect on current or future projects.
“No one is honoring time limits, and the lead time to prepare faculty and staff,†said another principal.
With less lead time, researchers could use a combination of multiple deflections, larger spacecrafts, or boosts in speed, depending on the hazardous object.
Yet “even though that sounds like it’s far away . . . it doesn’t necessarily give us a ton of lead time,†Bettwy said.
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