at short notice

idiom

: immediately after one has been told about something

She had to leave on a business trip at (very) short notice.

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In an overheated market, holders of mining equipment jumped into hosting arrangements at short notice with owners of small facilities, some of whom had no prior experience and insufficient expertise, who agreed to install the equipment and run the mining operations on their behalf. —

Joel Khalili, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024 The building’s owner, a hedge fund company, has drastically increased the rent, and is pressuring the museum to negotiate a contract that will include termination at short notice. —

Marcel Fürstenau, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2024 The 2020 edition had to be canceled at short notice due to the pandemic. —

Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2024 The World Health Organization has a list of potential candidate vaccines for various subtypes of H5N1 that could be mass produced at short notice. —

David Cox, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for at short notice

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