last-minute
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- adjective
- /ˈlæstˌmɪnɪt/
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de última hora
- The Governor has a commission to consider last-minute appeals for clemency.
- last-minute changes
- last-minute plans
- make last-minute changes
It was so last minute, so spontaneous.
- It was so last minute, so spontaneous.
- This is the most last minute episode we've ever done.
- When you have guests over and it's like a last minute thing or they don't have their toothbrush with them.
- I respond to last minute requests constantly from them because I just want to be near them.
- Again, save some money, stop you to buy some freshwater in single use plastic bottles and then we've got Hotel Tonight to find last minute hotel deals around the UK.
- It was very last minute spontaneous decision, which is really not like me at all and I felt quite like proud of myself for doing it.
Examples
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Sorry it was so last-minute, though.
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But I'm really bad at gift giving so I wait till the last minute and then end up giving weird gifts.
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So now, finally, in the last minute, we'll try to actually show what we want to show.
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"We're all used to things with the federal government being changed at the last minute," he says.
Academic text (2016) -
We doing some last-minute Christmas shopping?
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The greater the need for speed, the less room there is for error or last-minute changes.
Academic text (1996) -
Excuse me, sir, it seems we have a last-minute cancellation.
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Marta was upset by what she saw as a last-minute request.
Academic text (2002) -
The room is brightly lit for TV, and the crew is making last-minute adjustments.
Fiction book (1991) -
We decided to make some last-minute changes to the presentation before the meeting started.
Antonyms
How Last-Minute
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Last-minute combines last ('final') and minute ('a very short time' or '60 seconds'), so it gives the image of something done in the final tiny moment. That's why a last-minute decision or change happens just before a deadline.