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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
promptly
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 addressed to them.
▪ If you have missed the deadline you need to act promptly to minimise any further charges.
▪ Unless we act promptly, the number could be even higher.
▪ It is proper for the Government to act promptly, early in this Session, to deal with the problem.
announce
▪ President Clinton promptly announced a law to crack down on juvenile criminals and a new computer database to track gang activity.
▪ It was promptly announced to Harvard dealers that the rebel had been sacked from Sheppards.
pay
▪ If the tax was paid promptly, a discount was given.
▪ He is on the record that wages of the miners and other workers will henceforth be paid promptly.
▪ But if the independent jobber happened to be on the County Planning Commission, the bill was promptly paid in full.
▪ Many federal contracts, for example, impose penalties when the government does not pay promptly.
respond
▪ The Orientalia Division of the Library of Congress promptly responded to my queries.
▪ Technology made demands on science, which naturally and promptly responded.
▪ This source of prospects is an important one and the salesperson should respond promptly.
▪ Patients with severe renal insufficiency, or those not responding promptly to the above measures, should receive dialysis.
▪ Glucose metabolism and insulin secretion are disturbed; hypoglycemia is common and potentially lethal but usually responds promptly to dietary correction.
return
▪ Any material loaned will be handled carefully, copied and returned promptly.
▪ The terrorized novice promptly returned it, claiming that he was being haunted by apparitions for his act.
▪ Jean-Luc, working at home, grew alarmed when his wife and daughter did not return promptly.
sell
▪ Metromail promptly sold her the addresses of 5, 500 households with children, along with the names of their parents.
set
▪ Hargreaves and party promptly set about the most obvious vertical weakness.
▪ Upon arrival, he was welcomed to Hades and the host promptly set the temperature gauge at 110 degrees.
▪ The Board of Trade promptly set up an enquiry into the industry and its methods and techniques.
▪ Meanwhile, the sheep industry had developed rapidly, and these smaller animals were promptly set upon by both wolves and coyotes.
▪ And the players promptly set about taking over the asylum.
▪ The intrepid scientists promptly set out to test whether human beings do the same.
▪ She promptly set down her plate of lobster salad and set off in hot pursuit.
▪ His work done, Nation collected his fee and promptly set off in search of other work, as did any other jobbing writer.
take
▪ And often she'd touch down on my glove only to find something not quite right and promptly take off again.
▪ He promptly took it out of her hand, smeared it with honey and pushed it towards her mouth.
▪ The rebels promptly took them hostage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any negative statements and accusations made should be promptly and forthrightly answered, preferably at the level on which they originate.
▪ Ask them if they had any problems and if they were fixed promptly and properly.
▪ But the letter, a social obligation too promptly performed, had lacked conviction.
▪ Hargreaves and party promptly set about the most obvious vertical weakness.
▪ He recovered promptly and has had no further problems 30 months after transplantation.
▪ President Clinton promptly announced a law to crack down on juvenile criminals and a new computer database to track gang activity.
▪ She repeated the Hebrew words I taught her, but promptly forgot them again.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Promptly

Promptly \Prompt"ly\, adv. In a prompt manner.

Wiktionary
promptly

adv. In prompt manner; both soon and quickly.

WordNet
promptly

  1. adv. with little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!" [syn: quickly, quick]

  2. in a punctual manner; "he did his homework promptly" [syn: readily, pronto, without delay]

  3. at once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence); "he promptly forgot the address" [syn: right away]

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.