Definition/Meaning:
with the approaching time or schedule
Examples:
- Deutsche Bank races against time to reach U.S. settlement.
- Recognition and treatment against sepsis is a race against time.
- After 30 years, Chernobyl repair is racing against time.
- Henry Parnasse reportedly found himself locked in a race against time Wednesday morning to take out a trash bag with a widening hole in its side.
- The Centre is running against time to meet the ‘stiff’ target rollout date of April 1, 2017 for a new indirect tax regime.
- Obama officials work against time to wrap banking rules.
- In my race against time I can't stop running through the red light.
- We are literally in a race against time and we must take every opportunity to spread the word.
- Scientists race against time to develop new antibiotics.
- Britain's MI5 security Service and police are reportedly in a "race against time" to stop Islamic State jihadis from targeting England's Queen Elizabeth and other members of the Royal Family at a parade in London next Saturday.