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LEAD TIME

Specialty Definition: LEAD TIME

DomainDefinition

Economics

That period of time needed to prepare for an action. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: LEAD TIME

Specialty definitions using "LEAD TIME": OPTOMECHANICAL TECHNICIANPRODUCTION PLANNER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: LEAD TIME

DomainTitle

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: LEAD TIME

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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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LEAD TIME

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lead time

26

definition lead time

3

bias lead time

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LEAD TIME

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.

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Misspellings: LEAD TIME

Misspellings

"LEAD TIME" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leadtime. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: LEAD TIME

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.

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Alternative Orthography: LEAD TIME


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 45 41 44      54 49 4D 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01010100 01001001 01001101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#32 &#84 &#73 &#77 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0041 0044      0054 0049 004D 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46393538254434739

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INDEX

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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