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in short order en · ADV

Meanings

1. In a speedy manner; with dispatch; quickly.
   • But it may be just as much of one for the opera house administrators who have come to depend on him as a box-office draw, and for the international audiences that in remarkably short order — less than a decade, really — have embraced him as the most important, versatile tenor of his generation. 2014 February 7, Zachary Woolfe, “For a Sage Tenor, It’s All in the Timing”, in New York Times:
   • She was scandalised by my suggestion that she should have bought the other three seats, in order to use the table as an office space. Her solution was that I should go and sit elsewhere. Her appeal to the ticket inspector/guard was rebuffed in short order. 2023 May 31, “Open Access: On-train table manners”, in RAIL, number 984, page 63:

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it rapidamente (quickly) · it velocemente (quickly) · hu gyorsan (quickly) · fi lyhyen kaavan mukaan (quickly) · hu sebtében (quickly) · hu hamar (quickly)