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| Domain | Definition |
Economics | That period of time needed to prepare for an action. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: LEAD TIME |
| Specialty definitions using "LEAD TIME": OPTOMECHANICAL TECHNICIAN ♦ PRODUCTION PLANNER. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Lead time and import duties are eliminated when a product is manufactured locally. (references) | |
Similar products are cheaper from countries like Australia due to the lower exchange rate, cheaper shipping charges and the shorter lead time for delivery of goods. (references) | ||
Economic History | Indonesia | Turbo Gold Key: An expedited Gold Key service with less than 2 weeks lead time. (references) |
Indonesia | Four weeks of lead time is required from the day the product literature is received. (references) | |
Nigeria | Group videoconference available with 1-month lead time; individual videoconference available with 1 week lead time. (references) | |
Travel | Switzerland | Allowing ample lead time in setting up business appointments is also considered polite; one should not expect to "drop in" without an appointment on a business acquaintance. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lead time | 26 |
definition lead time | 3 |
bias lead time | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LEAD TIME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | цикл (circle, cycle, lead times, round). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"LEAD TIME" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leadtime. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-t" | |
-1 letter: emailed, limeade, mediate, metaled. | |
-2 letters: aedile, delate, delime, detail, dilate, elated, ideate, itemed, mailed, malted, mealie, meated, mediae, medial, melted, milted, tailed, teamed. | |
-3 letters: adeem, admit, ailed, aimed, amide, dealt, delta, demit, edema, edile, elate, elemi, elide, elite, email, ideal, lamed, lated, limed, maile, mated, medal, media, metal, meted, tamed, telae, telia, tidal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-t" | |
+1 letter: alimented, bedlamite, demential, mediately, metalised, metalized. | |
+2 letters: bedlamites, delaminate, derailment, eliminated, maledicted, meliorated, metallized, misaltered, misrelated, myelinated, pedimental. | |
+3 letters: ameliorated, delaminated, delaminates, derailments, detrimental, dilatometer, disablement, endometrial, immediately, legitimated, medievalist, metabolized, meteoroidal, multiheaded, reimplanted, streamlined, thermalized. | |
+4 letters: demilitarize, determinable, determinably, detrimentals, dilatometers, disablements, displacement, emblematized, endothelioma, immoderately, materialised, materialized, medievalists, meditatively, misevaluated, multifaceted, multilayered, postmedieval, radioelement, restimulated, sedimentable, semipalmated, slipstreamed, temporalized, unmyelinated, ventromedial, vermiculated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 41 44      54 49 4D 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01010100 01001001 01001101 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E A D   T I M E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 0041 0044      0054 0049 004D 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46393538254434739 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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