"last-minute" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
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          "text": "He's a last-minute replacement. After today, they'd have had to play with the original roster.",
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        "Just before it is too late; in the nick of time."
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          "ref": "1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 263",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Done or occurring at the latest possible time before an event."
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  "word": "last-minute"
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          "text": "He's a last-minute replacement. After today, they'd have had to play with the original roster.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Just before it is too late; in the nick of time."
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  "word": "last-minute"
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