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What is "expeditiously"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expeditiously
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The board understands that it must resolve this issue expeditiously.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Against that background, the new government should proceed expeditiously to make its actions transparent and itself accountable.
▪ As its provisions will be beneficial to many people, I hope that we shall deal with it expeditiously.
▪ It is also right that, as we have been urging, the asylum claims should be examined more expeditiously.
▪ Letters of Request are to be executed expeditiously.
▪ Second, it could prevent us from dealing expeditiously with emergencies such as natural disasters or military threats.
▪ Such appeals are decided much more expeditiously when courts need not prepare full opinions with detailed recitation of the facts.
▪ These infectious disease problems demonstrate the urgency for expeditiously implementing this plan.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expeditiously

Expeditious \Ex`pe*di"tious\, a. Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ly, adv. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ness, n.

Syn: Prompt; ready; speedy; alert. See Prompt.

Wiktionary
expeditiously

adv. In an expeditious manner

WordNet
expeditiously

adv. in an efficient manner; "he functions efficiently" [syn: efficiently, with efficiency] [ant: inefficiently]

Usage examples of "expeditiously".

They facilitate the action of the secretory glands, tone them up, and give a new impulse to their operations, so that they can more expeditiously rid the system of worn-out and effete materials.

Next pull up the cabbages, which, if they are of the largest varieties, may be expeditiously done by a potato hoe.

Gallic freedwoman Cardixa stood silently waiting for orders, and was instructed to see the ladies off the premises as expeditiously as possible.

The gigantic Gallic freedwoman Cardixa stood silently waiting for orders, and was instructed to see the ladies off the premises as expeditiously as possible.

Expeditiously Miguel found two suitable caskets, one of average size, the other smaller.

But I dressed and wrapped up expeditiously without waking Charley or any one and went down to Mr. Bucket, who was the person entrusted with the secret.

Is it possible for that to whom these remarks are addressed to attend the finalisation of said report, the more expeditiously to convey it to the Hiarankebine?

The creatures committing the abduction were sylphlike, mankindlike in form, small but energetic, strong, and very set on doing what they were doing as expeditiously as possible.