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in good time en · ADP

Meanings

1. At a suitable time that is upcoming.
   • Lear: I gave you all— Reagan: And in good time you gave it. c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
2. In time; before an appointed time; with time to spare.
   • No visitors appeared to delay them, and they all three set off in good time for the pump-room. 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
   • A taxicab took me round in good time for my appointment. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Coordinates

well-timed · seasonably · in good season

Deriveds

all in good time

Synonyms

time is ripe · when the time comes · in due time · in due course

Translations (13)

ro la timp (before appointed time) · lad en bonora (at a suitable time) · de vor der Zeit (before appointed time) · cs s předstihem (before appointed time) · gd tràthail (before appointed time) · de vorzeitig (before appointed time) · de früher als gedacht (before appointed time) · fr en temps utile (at a suitable time) · fi sopivasti (at a suitable time) · eo je konvena tempo (at a suitable time) · ru своевре́менно (at a suitable time) · fi hyvissä ajoin (before appointed time) · de früher als geplant (before appointed time)