punctual
Normally he was a stickler for punctuality but today he was late.
He had a list of the things he needed to do, and punctuality was crucial.
Punctuality is a key element for those who travel frequently for business.

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cue
dot
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timekeeper
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timeliness
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timing
well timed

punctuality | Business English

punctuality
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌpʌnktʃuˈæləti/us
the habit of arriving or happening at the time that has been agreed:
There is a bonus scheme for employees who show good performance and punctuality.

Examples of punctuality

punctuality
Parking, punctuality, and quality are dummy variables, so the reported elasticities and marginal effects are only approximations.
Day-to-day problems of attendance, punctuality and absenteeism are also treated to collective solutions.
Monastic discipline is first and foremost a temporal discipline of punctuality and accurate timekeeping.
Subsidies should instead be linked to better service, particularly regarding punctuality and frequency of departures, which further reduce overall travel time.
On the other hand, judging by the record punctuality enjoyed by our flights, perhaps we could not have come at a better time.
Accomplishments are included in the second column only in terms of punctuality.
Low costs, albeit desirable, are not necessarily as important to many shippers (especially line operators) as logistical effectiveness, that is, reliability and punctuality of service.
As for the third feature, punctuality, achievements and semelfactives are opposed to accomplishments, activities, and states.
Speed in the transit, and punctuality in arrivals and connections, are desirable, are required in this mode of conveyance.
Punctuality and reliability in payments were vital in building up trust, but the manner in which a merchant conducted himself in public was also important.
The punctuality attribute was defined such that it was not related to frequency of departures.
To supplement his particular rules concerning punctuality, cleanliness and avoidance of waste and error, he had a list of forfeits of a more general nature.
Arsenal workers were thus subject to an array of rules regarding punctuality and absenteeism.
For a high frequency service, one could argue that punctuality is not important.
In contrast to synthetic ingressives analytic ingressives are productive and unmarked with respect to punctuality.
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