Usually means: Final moments before a deadline.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word last minute:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. last minute: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. last-minute, last minute, the last minute: Merriam-Webster
  3. last minute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. last minute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. last-minute, last-minute: Collins English Dictionary
  6. last-minute, last minute: Vocabulary.com
  7. Last-Minute, Last-minute, last-minute: Wordnik
  8. last-minute, the last minute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. last-minute, last minute: Wiktionary
  10. last minute: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. last-minute, last minute: Dictionary.com
  12. The Last Minute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. last-minute, last minute: Rhymezone
  14. last-minute, last minute: FreeDictionary.org
  15. last-minute, last minute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. last-minute, last minute: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. last-minute, last minute: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the last minute: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (last minute)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) An arbitrary (non-specific) point in time, too close to a deadline to reasonably begin a critical task.
▸ adjective:  (idiomatic) Very close to a deadline.

Similar:
unpunctual, eleventh hour, last moment, closing time, dead line, deadline, terminus ad quem, game-time decision, startline, subdeadline, more...

Types:
procrastination, impromptu, spontaneous, emergency, last ditch effort, eleventh hour, urgent, immediate, more...

Phrases:
The Last Minute, last minute decision, win an auction at the last minute, last minute disaster, cancel at the last minute, more...

Adjectives:
off time, last, ultimate, last-minute, toward, lattermost, forrarder, endmost, forrard, forth

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Similar:
unpunctual, eleventh hour, last moment, closing time, dead line, deadline, terminus ad quem, game-time decision, startline, subdeadline, more...

Types:
procrastination, impromptu, spontaneous, emergency, last ditch effort, eleventh hour, urgent, immediate, more...

Phrases:
The Last Minute, last minute decision, win an auction at the last minute, last minute disaster, cancel at the last minute, last minute celebration, putting off until the last minute, add at last minute, more...

Adjectives:
off time, last, ultimate, last-minute, toward, lattermost, forrarder, endmost, forrard, forth



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