"on time" meaning in English

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Adjective

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  1. Punctual or according to schedule; at the planned time. Translations (punctual or according to schedule): akurata (Esperanto), pontos (Hungarian), 時間通り (jikan-doori) (Japanese), na czas (Polish), своевременный (svojevremennyj) (Russian), a tiempo (Spanish), a punto (Spanish), a buen punto (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-on_time-en-adj-kL08ifX4 Categories (other): Time Disambiguation of Time: 29 0 35 36

Prepositional phrase

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  1. Punctually or according to the schedule. Tags: not-comparable Translations (punctually): ваҡытында (vaqıtında) (Bashkir), навреме (navreme) (Bulgarian), a l'hora (Catalan), 按時 /按时 (ànshí) (Chinese Mandarin), 準時 /准时 (zhǔnshí) (Chinese Mandarin), op tijd (Dutch), stipt (Dutch), akurate (Esperanto), ajallaan (Finnish), ajassa (Finnish), à l'heure (French), à temps (French), á hora (Galician), pünktlich (German), rechtzeitig (German), ακριβής (akrivís) (Greek), időben (Hungarian), in orario (Italian), 時間通りに (jikandōri ni) (alt: じかんどおりに) (Japanese), temporī (Latin), tempore (Latin), навре́мено (navrémeno) (Macedonian), na czas (Polish), o czasie (Polish), punktualnie (Polish), a tempo e horas (Portuguese), la timp (Romanian), во́время (vóvremja) (Russian), na vrijeme (Serbo-Croatian), pravovremeno (Serbo-Croatian), pravočasno (Slovene), a tiempo (Spanish), i tid (Swedish), vaktinde (Turkish), zamanında (Turkish), вча́сно (včásno) (Ukrainian), ar amser (Welsh), antydn (West Flemish), בײַ צײַטנס (bay tsaytns) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-on_time-en-prep_phrase-wb~ZbH16 Disambiguation of 'punctually': 100 0 0
  2. By installments, payments over a period of time. Tags: not-comparable Translations (by installments): vähittäismaksulla (Finnish), nach und nach (German)
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  3. (chess) By a player's running out of time. Tags: not-comparable Translations (by running out of time): ajalla (Finnish), na czas (Polish), på tid (Swedish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: in time

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "by installments",
      "word": "nach und nach"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "by running out of time",
      "word": "ajalla"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "by running out of time",
      "word": "na czas"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "by running out of time",
      "word": "på tid"
    }
  ],
  "word": "on time"
}

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