on time

See also: on-time

English

Adjective

on time (comparative more on time, superlative most on time)

1. Punctual or according to schedule.

Alternative forms

• on-time

Adverb

on time (not comparable)

1. Punctually or according to the schedule.

   The train arrived on time for the first time this week.

2. By installments, payments over a period of time.

   They bought their dining-room furniture on time.

3. (chess) By a player's running out of time.

   Smith beat Jones on time.

Synonyms

• in time

Translations

punctually

• Bashkir: ваҡытында (vaqïtïnda)
• Catalan: a l'hora (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 按時 (zh), 按时 (zh) (ànshí), 準時 (zh), 准时 (zh) (zhǔnshí)

• Dutch: op tijd, stipt
• Esperanto: akurate
• Finnish: ajallaan (fi), ajassa
• French: à l'heure (fr), à temps (fr)
• Galician: á hora f
• German: pünktlich (de), rechtzeitig (de)
• Greek: ακριβής (el) (akrivís)
• Hungarian: időben

• Italian: in orario
• Japanese: 時間通りに (じかんどおりに, jikandōri ni)
• Latin: temporī (la), tempore (la)
• Polish: na czas (pl)
• Portuguese: na hora (pt)
• Russian: во́время (ru) (vóvremja)
• Serbo-Croatian: na vrijeme, pravovremeno (sh)
• Slovene: pravočasno
• Spanish: a tiempo (es)
• Swedish: i tid (sv)
• Welsh: ar amser
• Yiddish: בײַ צײַטנס‎ (bay tsaytns)

by installments

• Finnish: vähittäismaksulla

• German: nach und nach (de)

by running out of time

• Finnish: ajalla

• Swedish: på tid

Anagrams

• time on