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last-minute en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Just before it is too late; in the nick of time.
    • He's a last-minute replacement. After today, they'd have had to play with the original roster.
  2. Done or occurring at the latest possible time before an event.
    • Instead, travellers are directed to the respective assembly points; this facilitates any last-minute changes in platform arrangements and also frustrates any would-be queue-jumpers. 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 263: