LAST MINUTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does last minute mean? 

• LAST MINUTE (noun)
  The noun LAST MINUTE has 1 sense:

1. the latest possible moment

  Familiarity information: LAST MINUTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAST MINUTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The latest possible moment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

eleventh hour; last minute

Context example:

at the last minute the government changed the rules

Hypernyms ("last minute" is a kind of...):

instant; minute; moment; second (a particular point in time)

 Context examples 

Mercury also rules travel, so you might take a spontaneous trip at the last minute to ring in the New Year.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"You oughtn't to be seen till the last minute, child."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Regarding Pluto and Saturn, you may feel pressured to comply with rules or changes to a creative project at the last minute.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But at the last minute, Mrs. Kirke remembered some old brocades, and Miss Norton lent me lace and feathers.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then tea must be got, errands done, and one or two necessary bits of sewing neglected until the last minute.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Well, he said he knew you. He said he was raised in Louisville. Asa Bird brought him around at the last minute and asked if we had room for him.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)