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all-time

adjectiveattested in dialogue

Of all time; unsurpassed up to the present time.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of all time; unsurpassed up to the present time.

    Sales have reached an all-time low, so the business may have to declare bankruptcy.

    And the Premier League's all-time top-goalscoring midfielder proved he has not lost the knack of being in the right place at the right time with a trio of clinical finishes.

    During the 1960s and 1970s, when both the quality of architecture and the appreciation of historic buildings reached an all-time low, British Railways was notorious for replacing good station buildings and canopies with little more than bus shelters, usually in conjunction with de-staffing.

Etymology

From all + time.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).