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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
all-time
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all-time greats
▪ Jack Nicklaus is one of golf’s all-time greats.
all-time low (=much lower or worse than ever before)
▪ Public confidence in the legal system is at an all-time low.
all-time/modern/design etc classic
▪ The play has become an American classic.
an all-time record
▪ The price of oil has hit an all-time record.
hit a peak/an all-time high etc
▪ Earnings hit a peak in the early 1980s.
hit rock-bottom/an all-time low etc
▪ Oil prices have hit rock-bottom.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
classic
▪ Puzznic is destined to become an all-time classic in the Tetris/Klax mould, and no serious puzzle-player should be without it.
▪ A favourite of many and an all-time classic you can't afford to be without.
high
▪ It has shed more than 200 points since reaching an all-time high of 5, 689. 74 on April 3.
▪ Demand for water throughout Florida is at an all-time high.
▪ Today markets are opening all over the place, and stock prices are in many markets at all-time highs.
low
▪ It hit its all-time low of 5.5 million tons in 1932.
▪ From where she sits, morale looks to be at an all-time low.
▪ The stock is trading near its all-time low.
▪ Random acts of civility do appear to be at an all-time low.
record
▪ The exposure it received this year was an all-time record.
▪ That was 48 % up on the year before, and an all-time record.
▪ From 1980 to 1981 they rose a further 10 percent, to reach an all-time record.
▪ It's an all-time record befitting the 8 times champion jockey who once won 221 races in a season.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result, they've dragged down Freeserve's share price to an all-time closing low of 122p.
▪ Edward's affair and subsequent marriage to divorced Mrs Simpson had left the family's popularity at an all-time low.
▪ His all-time hero was John Wheatley, the health and housing minister.
▪ The exposure it received this year was an all-time record.
▪ The goal moved Lindros past Ilkka Sinisalo into ninth place on the Flyers' all-time list.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
all-time

all-time \all-time\ adj. 1. unsurpassed in some respect up to the present. prices at an all-time high; morale at an all-time low; among the all-time great lefthanders

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
all-time

"during recorded time," 1910, American English, from all + time (n.). Earlier it had been used in a sense "full-time," of employment, or in opposition to one-time (1883).

Wiktionary
all-time

a. unsurpassed up to the present time

WordNet
all-time

adj. unsurpassed in some respect up to the present; "prices at an all-time high"; "morale at an all-time low"; "among the all-time great lefthanders"

Usage examples of "all-time".

Then, the arteria total had been falling from its earlier - and then all-time - high of nearly 39,000 to under a thousand.

Anti-Homecoming will go down in my personal history as one of the all-time bizarro nights of my life, from the moment Len picked me up to the second he drove me home, and including all the moments without him in between.

At the moment, there were a hundred and forty inmates in Hawksbill Station, pretty close to the all-time high.

But really, Rain asked herself, were things any better in her time, when homelessness and child abuse had reached all-time high proportions, when children of third-world countries starved to death, and abortion far exceeded the million mark each year?

And then Janice is beside her and Janice is asking her what her all-time favorite Simon and Garfunkel song is and soon they are deep in a discussion of 'Homeward Bound' and 'I Am a Rock', the one that goes 'If I'd never loved, I never would have cried.

There were five classic crime scene contaminators: weather, relatives of the victim, suspects, souvenir collectors, and-the all-time worst-fellow cops.

You have brought me so much marvelous happiness Paul that although I know you will go away soon to consort once more with Hilda, that all-time all-timer girl, it still pleases me to be here in this good Dansk bed with you.

Production capacities were expanded, stock markets exploded, and both consumer confidence and total employment hit all-time highs.

As a graduating midshipman, I set the Academy's official all-time cumulative scoring record for space-battle games.

Hot years through the eighties and nineties were singled out, but not the all-time lows in Alaska and subzero conditions across Scandinavia and in Moscow.

To advocate it as a general solution for six billion people would set an all-time record for inanity.

Litigation was the all-time favorite, and the litigators were still the most revered of all God's lawyers, at least within the firm.

Her gaze gave him the eerie feeling that she had truly been along on the all-time championship motocross run.

This cockroach could have played Nose Tackle for the London Jets in their all-time best season.

In general, and maybe because of this, female pain thresholds ran higher than male, but the menstrual cycle dragged them down to an all-time low once a month.