Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
on-the-scene \on-the-scene\ on-the-spot \on-the-spot\adj. Being or occurring at the place or time in question; as, an on-the-scene newscast.
Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic English)In the right place at this very moment.
WordNet
adj. at the scene of action; "an on-the-spot reporter"; "on-the-spot inspections"; "an on-the scene newscast" [syn: on-the-spot(a), on-the-scene(a)]
Usage examples of "on-the-spot".
Rather, he was something of a poet, an inventor of on-the-spot ballads called corridos, and at one time he had been able to read and write in both English and Spanish.
The trend was reflected in system architectures, where, to accommodate demands for ever greater speed and precision, earlier design philosophies based on bringing passive data to a few centralized processing bottlenecks gave way to connecting large numbers of simpler units in parallel to provide on-the-spot processing of large arrays of data simultaneously.
Your on-the-spot snap psychiatric diagnosis-despite your confessed ignorance of psychiatry-is superior to the judgment of three psychiatrists after three weeks of exhaustive professional examination.
First there was the microprocessor, which passed an on-the-spot function check before he installed it on a circuit board and patched the tiny rig into the automatic answering device.
I'd known Morelli for most of my life, and I almost never had an on-the-spot orgasm, anymore.
Diehl had threatened Butterfield with on-the-spot dismissal from the bureau if he did not change into a regulation three-piece suit immediately.
Byers worked at flea markets in the Memphis–West Memphis area, performing on-the-spot jewelry repair until he and Melissa opened their own store, Byers Jewelry, in West Memphis in 1989.
Comments: homo coitus interruptus, Junior levies on-the-spot fines-- cash, jewelry, reefers.
Either the ship had exploded from a spontaneous combustion in the coal-bins, or a floating mine had accidentally hit a bulkhead, or -- and this was currently being whispered up and down Printing House Square -- Hearst himself had caused the Maine to be blown up so that he could increase the Journal's circulation with his exciting, on-the-spot coverage of the war.
She figures that he's just being picky, and she sends three of her kinkiest girls, and maybe a skinny little guy, just for laughs, to Franco's suite to see if they can't tempt him into making an on-the-spot decision.
The on-the-spot presidential sacking of Colonel Jeff Peters had shocked everyone, but as three other senior officerstwo major generals, and a lieutenant generalwere removed from the command post and interrogated by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on a secure line from the Situation Room, a frantic attempt was being made to contact the crew of ScotAir 50.
On the basis of Mo’s on-the-spot evaluation of that hypothetical profile—which he hours later suspected was no more hypothetical than Campbell’s soup—an innocent amnesiac was nearly blown away in a government ambush on New York’s Seventy-first Street.