IN GOOD TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in good time mean? 

• IN GOOD TIME (adverb)
  The adverb IN GOOD TIME has 1 sense:

1. at the appropriate time

  Familiarity information: IN GOOD TIME used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN GOOD TIME (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At the appropriate time

Synonyms:

in due course; in due season; in due time; in good time; when the time comes

Context example:

we'll get to this question in due course

 Context examples 

It was nearly half-past ten before I had received my message, but a taxicab took me round in good time for my appointment.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time; and so she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She was to convey Harriet, and they drove to the Crown in good time, the Randalls party just sufficiently before them.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Wake Sophie when you go upstairs, under pretence of requesting her to rouse you in good time to- morrow; for you must be dressed and have finished breakfast before eight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is a mercy that we have found out his strength and his danger in good time.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I learned, there, that he had gone to Lowestoft, to meet some sudden exigency of ship-repairing in which his skill was required; but that he would be back tomorrow morning, in good time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And here in good time comes my lady, without whose counsel it is not my wont to decide aught of import; but, indeed, it was her own thought that you should come.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have come in good time to fight our enemy and bring peace to all the animals of the forest once more.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

There are a good many other points of detail which will, no doubt, come to light in good time.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a private consultation between Isabella and James, the former of whom had particularly set her heart upon going, and the latter no less anxiously placed his upon pleasing her, it was agreed that, provided the weather were fair, the party should take place on the following morning; and they were to set off very early, in order to be at home in good time.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)