LAST MINUTE

Meaning of LAST MINUTE in English

noun

Etymology: last (II) + minute

: the moment or interval of time just before some usually climactic, decisive, or disastrous event or development

help came to the garrison at the last minute

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

LAST MINUTE — noun Date: 1920 the moment just before some climactic, decisive, or disastrous event, last-minute adjective
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
LAST-MINUTE — adjective see: last minute
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
LAST-MINUTE — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective Etymology: last minute : made or occurring at the last minute last-minute plans for preventing the war — …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LAST MINUTE — — last-minute , adj. /min"it/ the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken. [ …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
LAST-MINUTE — see last minute
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LAST MINUTE — Date: 1920 : the moment just before some climactic, decisive, or disastrous event • last-minute adjective
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LAST MINUTE — Function: noun Date: 1920 : the moment just before some climactic, decisive, or disastrous event – last-minute adjective
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
LAST MINUTE — [last minute] n (1920): the moment just before some climactic, decisive, or disastrous event
Merriam-Webster English vocab
LAST-MINUTE — last-minute BrE AmE ˌlɑːs t ˈmɪn ɪt ◂ § -ət AmE ˌlæs t -
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
LAST-MINUTE — adjective [ usually before noun ] done, decided or organized just before sth happens or before it is too late …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LAST-MINUTE — ˌlast-ˈminute BrE AmE adjective [only before noun] happening or done as late as possible before something else happens: a few …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
LAST-MINUTE — see minute
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LAST-MINUTE — see minute
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
LAST-MINUTE — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a last-minute dash (= very fast, because you have very little time remaining ) ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
LAST MINUTE — Synonyms and related words : belatedness, cursory, deathbed, eleventh hour, eleventh-hour, expeditious, festinate, feverish, flying, furious, hasty, high time, hurried, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
LAST-MINUTE — adj.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
LAST-MINUTE — adj. Last-minute is used with these nouns: ↑ cancellation , ↑ dash , ↑ deal , ↑ decision , ↑ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
LAST-MINUTE — сделаный в последнюю минуту (перед чем-л.) - * preparations последние приготовления случившийся в последнюю минуту - * relief спасение, пришедшее …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
LAST-MINUTE — a 1> сделанный в последнюю минуту ( перед чем-л. ) last-minute preparations - последние приготовления 2> случившийся в последнюю минуту …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
LAST MINUTE — (r) сделанный в последнюю минуту; случившийся в последнюю минуту
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
LAST-MINUTE — a 1) сделанный в последнюю минуту ( перед чем-л. ) ~ preparations - последние приготовления 2) случившийся в последнюю минуту …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
LAST-MINUTE — a 1> сделанный в последнюю минуту ( перед чем-л. ) last-minute preparations - последние приготовления 2> случившийся в последнюю минуту …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
LAST-MINUTE — сделаный в последнюю минуту (перед чем-л.) - * preparations последние приготовления случившийся в последнюю минуту - * relief спасение, пришедшее …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
MINUTE — adj minute (1. diminutive; 2. as in a minute investigation)
Interlingua English vocab
MINUTE — I. min·ute ˈminə̇t, usu -ə̇d.+V noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Medieval …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LAST
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MINUTE — ( a. ) Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
MINUTE — minute 1 /min"it/ , n. , v. , minuted, minuting , adj. n. 1. the sixtieth part ( 1 / …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
LAST — last 1 /last, lahst/ , adj. a superl. of late with later as compar. 1. occurring or coming after all …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MINUTE — adj. of a minute or minutes; occurring in a minute; instant
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
LAST — I. ˈlast verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English lǣstan to last, follow; akin to Old English lāst footprint Date: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MINUTE — noun a coin; a half farthing. 2. minute ·noun a point of time; a moment. 3. minute ·noun a nautical …
Webster English vocab
LAST — adj in conclusion; finally. 2. last ·noun the burden of a ship; a cargo. 3. last ·adj supreme; highest in …
Webster English vocab
LAST — [last] vb [ME, fr. OE laestan to last, follow; akin to OE last footprint] vi (bef. 12c) 1: to continue …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
MINUTE — in timekeeping, 60 seconds, now defined in terms of radiation emitted from atoms of the element cesium under specified conditions. …
Britannica English vocabulary
MINUTE — I min|ute noun, verb BrE AmE ˈmɪn |ɪt § -ət AmE -|ət ▷ min|uted ɪt ɪd § ət-, -əd AmE …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
LAST — last, Last BrE AmE lɑːst § læst AmE læst ▷ lasted ˈlɑːst ɪd § ˈlæst-, -əd AmE ˈlæst əd ▷ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
MINUTE — I . *min·ute / ˈmɪnɪt; NAmE / noun , verb —see also minute (II) ■ noun PART OF HOUR 1. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LAST — I . *last / lɑːst; NAmE læst/ determiner , adverb , noun , verb —see also last (II) ■ determiner …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MINUTE — I. min ‧ ute 1 S1 W1 /ˈmɪnət, ˈmɪnɪt/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old French …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
LAST — I. last 1 S1 W1 /lɑːst $ læst/ BrE AmE determiner , adjective 1 . most recent or nearest to …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
MINUTE — n. & v. --n. 1 the sixtieth part of an hour. 2 a distance covered in one minute (twenty minutes …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LAST — adj., adv., & n. --adj. 1 after all others; coming at or belonging to the end. 2 a most recent; …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
MINUTE — n. & v. n. 1 the sixtieth part of an hour. 2 a distance covered in one minute (twenty minutes …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
LAST — adj., adv., & n. adj. 1 after all others; coming at or belonging to the end. 2 a most recent; …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
MINUTE — 1. n. & v. --n. 1. the sixtieth part of an hour. 2 a distance covered in one minute (twenty …
Oxford English vocab
LAST — 1. adj., adv., & n. --adj. 1. after all others; coming at or belonging to the end. 2 a most …
Oxford English vocab
MINUTE — I. NOUN AND VERB USES /mɪnɪt/ ( minutes, minuting, minuted) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LAST — ( lasts, lasting, lasted) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MINUTE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES 5 minutes/an hour/20 years etc ago ▪ Her husband died 14 years ago. a …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
LAST — I. determiner COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a final/last attempt ▪ They made one final attempt to make their marriage work. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
LAST — Synonyms and related words : Z, abide, advance, aforegoing, after, aftermost, apodosis, at last, at length, at long last, at …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
LAST — See: AT LAST, EVERY LAST MAN, EVERY SINGLE or EVERY LAST, FIRST AND LAST, HE LAUGHS BEST WHO LAUGHS LAST, …
Slang English vocab
MINUTE — I. noun 1 one sixtieth of an hour ADJECTIVE ▪ closing , final , opening ▪ He scored in the …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
MINUTE — See ↑ SMALL 2,3,4 ◆◆◆ • ↑ a minute/a moment • ↑ a minute/second ago • ↑ any minute/moment/time now …
Longman Activator English vocab
LAST — See ↑ BEFORE 4, ↑ CONTINUE 2, ↑ ENOUGH/NOT ENOUGH 1, ↑ LAST 1,5,6,7, ↑ REMAIN 2, ↑ SURVIVE 1 …
Longman Activator English vocab
LAST — INDEX: coming at the end 1. coming at the end after all others 2. to be the last one in …
Longman Activator English vocab
MINUTE — n. 25B6; adjective minute particles : TINY, minuscule, microscopic, very small, little, micro, diminutive, miniature, baby, toy, dwarf, pygmy, Lilliputian; …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
MINUTE — n. 25B6; noun it'll only take a minute : MOMENT, short time, little while, second, bit, instant; informal sec, jiffy; …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
LAST — n. 25B6; adjective the last woman in the queue : REARMOST, hindmost, endmost, at the end, at the back, furthest …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
MINUTE — n. 1 instant, second, split second, flash, moment, before you can say 'Jack Robinson', blink or wink or twinkling of …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
LAST — See: AT LAST, EVERY LAST MAN, EVERY SINGLE or EVERY LAST, FIRST AND LAST, HE LAUGHS BEST WHO LAUGHS LAST, …
Словарь английских идиом
MINUTE — noun 1 BAD : The train arrived at exactly twelve past three. GOOD : The train arrived at exactly twelve …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
LAST — I noun BAD : First we listened to the tape, then we answered some questions, and at last we wrote …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary

Webster's New International English Dictionary

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