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Answer for the clue "Right away ", 8 letters:
promptly
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Word definitions for promptly in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB act ▪ He warned that the cost of not acting promptly would eventually be far greater in economic and environmental terms. ▪ It is noteworthy that the teachers in the Art department acted promptly upon most of the recommendations ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Promptly \Prompt"ly\, adv. In a prompt manner.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. with little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!" [syn: quickly , quick ] in a punctual manner; "he did his homework promptly" [syn: readily , pronto , without delay ] at once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence); ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In prompt manner; both soon and quickly.
Usage examples of promptly.
While increasing the discharge of noxious elements accumulated in the system, it promptly arrests the wastes arising from debility, and the unusual breaking down of the cells incident to quick decline.
As for the bishop, he was so upset that he let the typescript of his carefully prepared allocution flutter to the floor below, with the result that he was promptly reduced to a peroration in terms of embarrassed improvisation.
This interpretation was obvious, but there was another which was not so clear but which the astute German ambassador in Moscow promptly pointed out to Berlin.
Lieutenant Merriman and his unit were moved on to the planet Hardknott, where the unlucky Private Benger swarmed up a tree to escape from a pack of armourdillos and was promptly devoured by the tree itself.
At just that moment, there was a thrashing from the other room, and Valentine Vervain, long red hair liberally beslimed, minus nine-foot train and one of her sleeves, scrambled through the door and plastered herself against the wall, where she promptly passed out.
He had reached the roof, gone to another building and descended so promptly, that he was out of hearing range when Bronden fired the bullet that ended the career of Clifford Sulgate.
He made a gesture to the platform, which promptly extruded a small, spherical image-field.
Skarn was at once transformed into a warty, mouse-scented demon, which the recovered Flax promptly dispersed.
The Kanddoyd escorted him to a pleasant waiting room while assuring him that the locutor would promptly interrupt her activities to serve him, using about four times as many words as were necessary.
SASHA remained operational, so Manny was instructed to argue, he would certainly learn of the defection when he returned to Washington and promptly betray Kukushkin to the SK people at the embassy.
Giorgio snapped, and Ozzi, Sacks, and Manzo promptly emerged from the jeep.
That quarrel was in full swing when we reached here and we were discussing the way to end it most promptly when monsieur le marechal entered the garden.
Harold, as the wife of an officer, was at liberty to take out a party of friends in one of the Academy launches, so she promptly got together a congenial dozen, Ralph, Happy, Shortie, Wheedles and Durand, Captain Pennell and four others besides Polly and herself, and in the crispness of the Indian Summer afternoon, steamed away up the Severn to Round Bay.
Not the prednisone it says, you have developed cataracts and should make appointments for the operations necessary to correct this condition as promptly as good God!
Being a Renaissance Soul does not indicate whether you are neat or messy, or whether you promptly file your taxes in early January or procrastinate well past April 15.