just-in-time

adjective

1. 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

1. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of just-in-time¹

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

Idioms and Phrases

see in the nick of time .

Example Sentences

In fact, e-commerce is a massive and growing just-in-time industry.

From The Daily Beast

The just-in-time mentality has spread from manufacturing and retailing into other businesses, and into our personal lives.

From The Daily Beast

The hurricane exposed the vulnerabilities of our new just-in-time economy.

From The Daily Beast

Ultimately, the solution lies not in moving away from a just-in-time world.

From The Daily Beast

It also upended one of the most important concepts in modern business: just-in-time management.

From The Daily Beast

Just-in-time, point-of-sale, and electronic interchanges came into being because the human pragmatic made them necessary.

From Project Gutenberg