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Answer for the clue "Right now ", 11 letters:
immediately

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In legal usage, " immediately " forms several compounds based on its conventional definitions.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay. conj. (non-gloss definition Indicates that the dependent clause describes something that occurs #Adverb immediately after the independent clause's referent does.)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!" [syn: instantly , straightaway , straight off , directly ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immediately \Im*me"di*ate*ly\, adv. In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately ; as, immediately contiguous. God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES immediately apparent ▪ The difference in quality was immediately apparent . immediately obvious ▪ The cause of the pain was not immediately obvious. instantly/immediately ▪ ‘No,’ she blurted out, instantly regretting ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"without intervening time or space," early 15c., from immediate + -ly (2).

Usage examples of immediately.

He followed immediately after, covering her with his naked body, then immediately adjusted himself, side to side and up and down so that his chest hairs abraded her nipples and his erection rested between her legs.

The tented arch is formed by the angle made when the curving ridge above the dot abuts upon the ridge immediately under and to the left of the dot.

Mersenne had immediately gone to general quarters and orderedIllustrious to accelerate as rapidly as possible away from the other ships.

He was planning to throw the Strike Force at Gorgrael immediately after Beltide in revenge for the Yuletide attack, while a contrary rumor had Axis planning to drive south and capture Achar for the Icarii first.

I perceived that those who have confirmed themselves in favor of nature and of human prudence would not make the acknowledgment because the natural light flowing in from below would immediately extinguish the spiritual light flowing in from above.

He therefore resolved immediately to acquaint him with the fact which we have above slightly hinted to the reader.

He had not gone far, however, before he recollected himself, and accordingly stopt at the very first inn he came to, and dispatched away a messenger to acquaint Blifil with his having found Sophia, and with his firm resolution to marry her to him immediately, if he would come up after him to town.

It landed almost at the feet of an old woman standing actionless at the veranda rail, only to dart off again immediately.

He immediately wrote to Martha, warning her that he thought Fleischl-Marxow may have become addicted to cocaine and that she should be very careful when taking the sample he had sent her lest she did the same.

I wrote to him and to the friars, and immediately set out, as I told him, almost alone, because all the people were with the Adelantado, and likewise in order to prevent suspicion on his part.

On the matter of the greatest medical importance, I must speak immediately with the head man of the American Tonsil, Adenoid and Vas Deferens Society.

A bill, therefore, was immediately passed, allowing the sign-manual to be adhibited by a stamp.

But when the adjective comes immediately in front of the noun it describes, it must normally be assumed that it is used attributively and not predicatively.

Even densely peopled areas like north Kent, the Sussex coast, west Gloucestershire and east Somerset, immediately adjoin areas like the Weald of Kent and Sussex where Romano-British remains hardly occur.

The entry of the adjournment of the house immediately after its meeting on the previous day, out of respect to the memory of the deceased statesman, was an honour which would live for ever in the journals of that house, and an honour which was never before paid to a subject.