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in short order

in short order adverb: in a speedy manner; with dispatch; quickly.

Adverb

in short order (comparative in shorter order, superlative in shortest order)

  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

in short order meaning in Tamil

in short order in Tamil

விரைவில்

Forms of in short order

comparativein shorter order
superlativein shortest order

Questions about in short order

What does in short order mean?
In short order means in a speedy manner; with dispatch; quickly.
What is in short order in Tamil?
In short order in Tamil is விரைவில். See In short order meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is in short order?
In short order is an adverb.

Words near in short order in the dictionary

  1. in sha Allah
  2. in shape
  3. in sheets
  4. in shit
  5. in short
  6. in short order
  7. in short pants
  8. in short supply
  9. in short trousers
  10. in shorter order
  11. in shortest order

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