| English Dictionary |
ON TIME
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
| IPA (US): |  |
Dictionary entry overview: What does on time mean?
• ON TIME (adjective)
The adjective ON TIME has 2 senses:
1. acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed
2. payable in installments within a designated period of time
Familiarity information: ON TIME used as an adjective is rare.
• ON TIME (adverb)
The adverb ON TIME has 1 sense:
1. at the expected or proper time
Familiarity information: ON TIME used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed
Synonyms:
on time; punctual
Context example:
she is always on time for class
Similar:
prompt (according to schedule or without delay; on time)
timely (before a time limit expires)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Payable in installments within a designated period of time
Context example:
we were short of cash, so we purchased our refrigerator on time
Similar:
due (owed and payable immediately or on demand)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At the expected or proper time
Synonyms:
on time; punctually
Context example:
she always arrives on time
Context examples
This is not a time for blue-sky ideas, but rather a time for living up to your promises and completing the job on time and on budget.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A restriction on the use of a device, medicine or treatment based on time limit parameters set forth by the approver.
(Limitation of Use Based on Duration of Use, NCI Thesaurus)
“We shall be ready by the trying-on time,” she replied gaily, without looking up.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The long table was full, and every one intent on getting their dinner, the gentlemen especially, who seemed to be eating on time, for they bolted in every sense of the word, vanishing as soon as they were done.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
More than seven years were gone since this little history of sorrowful interest had reached its close; and time had softened down much, perhaps nearly all of peculiar attachment to him, but she had been too dependent on time alone; no aid had been given in change of place (except in one visit to Bath soon after the rupture), or in any novelty or enlargement of society.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Keeping projects within financial perimeters and on time will be important to clients and higher-ups.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
You may have to hire help to get the work out on time.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant never taste of death but once." (William Shakespeare)
"Don't ask the singer to sing until he wishes to sing by himself." (Arabic proverb)
"Once a horse is old, ticks and flies flock to it." (Corsican proverb)