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last minute decision vs last moment decision

Both 'last minute decision' and 'last moment decision' are correct phrases, but 'last minute decision' is more commonly used in English. They both convey the idea of making a decision at the final moment before an event or deadline.

Last updated: March 26, 2024

last minute decision

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase refers to a decision made at the final moment before an event or deadline.

Examples:

  • I made a last minute decision to join the trip.
  • The team's last minute decision to change the strategy paid off.
  • She always makes her choices as a last minute decision.
  • It'll be a last minute decision.
  • Now, when some governments have made a last minute decision to prevent the free movement of labour, once again it is only the Liberals who have unanimously rejected these unfair restrictions.
  • Maybe it was a last-minute decision.
  • Which is why I was a little surprised at your last-minute decision to invite Laurel Mercer to the formal.
  • It was a last-minute decision, and the date was open so...
  • That was a bold last-minute decision, going with your idea.
  • I'm sure it was just, you know, a last-minute decision and everything.
  • I know I should have told you, but it was a last-minute decision.
  • Even recently, Monterrey, despite its last-minute decisions, was yet another reason to dampen our much-needed optimism.
  • It was a last-minute decision to put the money into the charity.
  • The last-minute decision of the leader of the FARC not to attend was extremely disappointing.
  • Does the Commission agree that the 59 workers at Malta Shipyards should not be transferred simply because of a last-minute decision to initiate insolvency proceedings?
  • Welcomes the last-minute decision on 28 May 2010 by the political parties to take the necessary steps to extend the tenure of the CA, and commends notably the important influence of the Women's Caucus;
  • We should resist any last minute attempts to reverse that decision.
  • We are grateful to you, Commissioner, for your letter, which - at the last minute, if I may say so - enabled us to reach our decision on the KEDO project.
  • The common foreign and security policy may not work perfectly but I believe that some very important decisions have been made, albeit at the last minute.
  • As I understand it, in Amsterdam Germany's Chancellor Kohl right at the last minute rejected attempts to ease the decision-making process on the question of environmental taxation.
  • All of a sudden, at the last minute, you are going to propose someone and, within a week, the decision will have been taken.
  • They thought that this European Council was boring, that the decisions lacked drama and that there were no last-minute solutions hammered out in the dead of night.
  • The Member States' willingness to compromise is unfortunately minimal on many important issues, since the veto can always be used to block a decision at the last minute.

Alternatives:

  • spur-of-the-moment decision
  • impromptu decision
  • snap decision
  • hasty decision
  • on-the-spot decision

last moment decision

This phrase is correct but less commonly used in English.

This phrase also refers to a decision made at the final moment before an event or deadline.

Examples:

  • It was a last moment decision to cancel the event.
  • She made a last moment decision to go back to school.
  • The last moment decision to invest in the project paid off.
  • Looking at it from this point of view, now is really the last moment for the decision to be made on the budget, as we are already short of time.
  • I keep on having these nightmares about Joy's last moments.
  • Make your last moments less painful.
  • His best friend was sent home to lie to me about his last moments.
  • I-I wanted you to like me until the very last moment because that made it less awkward.
  • Make your last moments less painful.
  • The honey must be added at the very last moment.
  • They called me to fill in at the last moment.
  • These are your last moments of freedom.
  • You don't want us canceling at the last moment again.
  • One last moment with Winnie, so...
  • - And of the last moments of my life.
  • He's savouring the last moments of his freedom.
  • But first, I'd like one last moment with Jeff.
  • Her last moments of terror still frozen on her face.
  • You can't let that last moment define the entire relationship.
  • I don't want to spend our last moments running.
  • We wanted to have these last moments together.
  • We always pull together at the last moment.
  • I saw our last moments together.

Alternatives:

  • last second decision
  • final decision
  • eleventh-hour decision
  • impulsive decision
  • spontaneous decision

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